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So I understand many of you will be on your last FM10 legs. You've lead your home team to the Champion's League. You've made Gary Speed the world's first 200m player. You've won the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, B and Z, the Hungarian Second Division and Hadjuk Split. You've probably started a Liverpool game. You've signed Romelu Lukaku several times. And now, with FM11's shadow casting over the forum, here are some ideas and challenges to get the most out of your management. Who knows, you might end up falling in love with it and never wanting to quit. There's a rehab for that.

Bare in mind there is no real leaderboard or points system - this is just some ideas so you can get the most of out of FM10 while you still can, before it becomes obsolete.

Fifteen ideas below to get some things churning, feel free to recommend your own.

1: Unemployment Challenge - On Speed

So I'm sure most of you have heard/attempted/completed the Unemployment Challenge. If not, it's exactly as the title suggests - you start off unemployed and have to build yourself up to managing one of the top teams in the world. It's a ridiculously popular challenge, and it's done every year. This is that, but with a twist. Instead of having your rep and past experience being Automatic and Sunday League, it's International. You're a legend who's out of work, and you want to see who's hiring. Usually, you'll end up starting at a Championship side and who knows? By the end of the season, Premier League, Serie A and La Liga big boys might come calling.

2: Build Your Own

This involves you assembling your own team. Remove Portsmouth/Hull/Burnley, set all of their players to Free Agents and delete the club. Then, create a club, place them in the Premier League with no players and give them a budget for £200m and a wage budget of 300k a week and go nuts. Buy 25 players, a squad capable of surviving the league. It'll take time to gel, so survival might be your only option.

3: The Minnows Cometh

There's those teams in a division that have either not done anything for years. They've just sat there. Mid-table season after season, never pressuring, never pushing. Just there. Well, bollocks to that. You're here now, you're changing it. Take the club from wherever it stayed before and lead them to the promised land, European football. To make it interesting, if you don't get 6th or higher, you're out.

Teams Available:

EPL: Bolton, Birmingham, Fulham, Blackburn, Stoke, Sunderland, West Ham, Wigan

La Liga: Racing Stander, Malaga, Deportivo, Zaragoza, Osasuna, Espanyol, Almerica, Sporting da Gijon

Serie A: Atalanta, Chievo, Napoli, Catania, Lazio, Cagliari

4: For Managing There, You Want Bloody Shooting!

Arsene Wenger, Brian Clough, Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho. Your task is to mirror the achievements and accomplishments of these managers. Whilst not being exact, you must be very similar - for example, when Fergie led Aberdeen to glory, lead a similar Scottish mid-table club to glory. Where Cloughy started, you continue. For Mourinho, win the Champion's League with a Portugese club, then go onto bigger horizons. Any manager this is applicable for, as long as they have the history and the success to determine it.

5: Don't Spend, Don't Sell

Barebones challenge here. Don't Spend or Sell for your first season and see how you can do.

6: Bjorken Shafen Ein

Remember the Swedish Chef from the Muppets? Imagine him, in full Gotenburg kit, celebrating their victory in Europe. Get as far as you can in the Europa League or Champion's League with a team in a country that is not:

England, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Italy. Also, not Shaktar or Zenit.

You could use one of Andy_DU's leagues to make it interesting.

7: BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Win the World Cup/Get to the final with an African team. Really, that simple.

8: World Series of Soccerball

Become manager of an American football team, and lead them to glory. Win the World Club Cup, basically. Then leave. Because no one cares about football over there.

9: WINNING THE SHIT OUT OF THESE LIMEY COMPETITIONS

Win the World Cup with the US.

10: Zeroes to Slighty Bigger Zeroes

Take control of the smallest team in a league (minimum second tier, lowest rep) and manage them as high as you can.

11: Pascal Chimbonda Would Be Proud

Have an entire new team implemented within three seasons in any club. This does not apply to players that begin in the reserves/U18's.

12: NATIONALIST FUCK

Only buy players from one country. Fairly simple, really.

13: ULTIMATE NATIONALIST FUCK

Only buy players from one country that is not the country your team originates from.

14: Mix-Up Mowtown

This is a long-winded one. Download one of the several free agents databases. Then, create a new game using any major league. Then holiday for a year. Take over any club you desire in the top flight. This will give the game a fresh feel.

15: Director of Football

Inspired by Walnut's thread a few weeks/months ago. You do all of the things a director of football would - decide tactics, transfers and everything else in the transfer window months. However, you are n01245 471154ot strictly a manager. You merely sign players for your team and tell them how to play. Your assistant is the real manager here, so pick a good one. You must go on holiday when there is not a window open, and hope for the best.

And that's about it. These are just a few ideas I came up with a few nights back for you (and indeed myself) to get the most out of the time left on FM10. Bare in mind there are a lot of other challenges and competitions spread around the forum, these are just if you do not have anything else left to do and are bored of normal management.