I have read many of the challenges on here and find them very interesting and entertaining, I have thought about a challenge and the one that springs to mind is as follows
As you are aware Rangers were liquidated and a new company formed that was granted a place in the 4th tier of Scottish football (Scottish third division)
Over the years rangers have had fewer and fewer Scottish players in their team despite having arguably the best training facility in Scotland and possibly the best scouting network also and took young players from all over scotland to Murray park, but always chose to buy success rather than nurture.
Over the years players who have come through Rangers youth set up and been let go are Charlie Adam, Allan Hutton, Ross McCormack, Danny Wilson, Barrie McKay, Andrew Shinnie to name but a few.
My challenge is to begin with Rangers in the Scottish third division and have a transfer policy of only signing Scottish players or those with scottish nationality, and to win through the lower leagues win the Scottish premier league and then eventually the champion’s league.
Now on the face of it that doesn’t sound like a challenge, but remember that Rangers are under a transfer embargo so I need to sign all my players by the end of the transfer window (sept 1st)and then I cannot sign any player unless they are under 21 for two transfer windows.
Again to put into perspective
Danny Wilson (LOAN) - Liverpool would not come as Liverpool wanted him toplay at a higher level so he pitched up at Celtic
James McFadden (FREE) - was not interested in even talking
Craig Gordon (FREE) - spoke to me but wanted far too much
And several of the 1/4 decent scottish players their parent clubs wanted more than i could afford.
So not quite as easy to get a squad together
Coupled with the fact that Rangers if they dont win practically every gsame i run the risk of the sack.
Also only one scottish team has ever won the european cup (celtic - 1967)
I have a budget of around 450k transfers and around 30k of wages p/w to play with.
There are a lot of non Scottish players playing for Rangers that I need to offload or to free as they cannot play in my team, period.
My policy will be to get the best youth system I can and then promote from within, buy the best young Scottish players I can and grow them into superstars.
Let me know if you think this is a challenge that is worth writing up and if there is interest I will get it kicked off....see what I did there