What can you enhance a outstanding experienced squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?
Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional trophies.
A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.
Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps
The team Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.
The roster this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.
This star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.
The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.
Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.
The team for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Together, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.
Household Names and Global Stars
Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.
Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.
"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.
"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!
"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?
"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.
"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.
"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.
"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."
Unreal Scenario
In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.
The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.
Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.
Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.
"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.
"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.
"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English caps.
"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.
"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.
"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.
"Now we can't wait for the return match."
We Will Still Take the League'
Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.
"We scored one-nil up and had a
