How can you boost a stellar experienced squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?
Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you target additional honors.
A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.
Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.
Their lineup this campaign includes 9 former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.
The high-profile roster also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.
They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.
He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.
The roster for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Together, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.
Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.
Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.
"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.
"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!
"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?
"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.
"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.
"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.
"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."
Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.
Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.
Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.
He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.
"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.
"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.
"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.
"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.
"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.
"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.
"Now we can't wait for the second match."
The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.
"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a
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