Football Manager fans, you’ve got just under a week to wait!

One of the greatest football games in the world, Football Manager 2017, is being released on Friday November 4.

Undoubtedly, there will be fans around the country who are already plotting their way to the top, and how best they can take their team to the next level.

Some will have drawn up a list of transfer targets, some will have decided who in the current squad needs to go, and some will have looked at the young players at their club to see whether they can hack it in their respective leagues.

However, there will be a few that are willing to take on a number of challenges to prove that they are a top football manager.

And, for Everton fans who saw their side struggle to an 11th place finish in the Premier League last season, they may feel that they know what it takes to get the Toffees back to the higher echelons of the Premier League.

Thus, here are THREE challenges Everton fans should undertake on the new game…

Get into the Champions League

Not since 2005 have Everton finished in the top four, with three fifth place and two sixth place finishes littering a barren run.

Toffees fans have waited too long for the elite European competition, yet, looking at the squad compiled by new boss Ronald Koeman, this could be achievable this season.

For you though, you must achieve a top four finish in your first season in charge at Goodison Park, and then make at least the last 16 of the Champions League in the following campaign.

Win trophies

You have to go back even longer for the last time Everton lifted a piece of silverware, with the 1995 Charity Shield the latest addition to the Goodison Park trophy cabinet.

And, having reached just one domestic Cup final since then, they haven’t really looked like ending that disappointing run.

However, your job is to finally get Everton back into the winner’s enclosure, by winning both the FA Cup and League Cup twice within your first five seasons in charge.

British and Irish contingent

Any FM manager should be able to go into any side in the world and mould a squad to their own desires, and that’s what you’re going to do at Everton.

The Toffees currently have 16 British and Irish players in their first team squad, and a further four out on loan across the top two tiers of English football.

A lot has been made about how British players don’t get much of a chance in the top-flight, but you are going to give them that chance.

Remove all non-British and Irish players from the squad, using the editorial function at the start, and build a squad capable of winning domestic honours and finishing near the top of the Premier League.

You can sign only British and Irish players and, within six years, you will have won three domestic trophies and finished within the top four at least three times.

However, one of those top four finishes must be turned into a Premier League title.