Well Whats so hard about starting of with a team equal to about The Potteries? Negotiation Periods are mid season (about 4 weeks) and after Season (about 8weeks) there's plenty of time there to get the team you want? and If you start in the Lower Division (2) you only have about 7 other teams to compete against, which means 14 games which really isn't a lot... I always start with a default players and bring them up to slowly get The players like Aguerro, Van Der Vaart, even Messi or Ronaldo. You'll feel much more pride in yourself if you start off crap, and progress to be one of, or the, best. I know it didn't answer your question but take it into consideration, why not?