How can you boost a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?
Bring in a collection of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue additional trophies.
One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight footballers in their present squad.
The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.
The roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.
This high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.
The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.
He had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.
The team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.
Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.
Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.
"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.
"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!
"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?
"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.
"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not staying back 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 after. It's good fun."
Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.
Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.
One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.
Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.
"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.
"I think I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.
"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.
"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.
"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.
"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.
"Now we are eager for the return fixture."
Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.
"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a
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