Soccer hypothetical situation

[O Fen�meno]

A top-tier player such as Ronaldinho, C. Ronaldo or Drogba decides to start their own team in the National Conference. The national conference is the 5th tier in the English football system.
The team would be composed of three starters from teams currently in the EPL. One goalie, one midfield and one striker. Three players who have been subbed in more that started from the EPL.
Then four players from the second,third and fourth level leagues. The remaining 7 players on a 25 man roster would be taken from 5th level teams.
Obviously the team would dominate the fifth and fourth levels and probably taking two years total to be in the third level.
The proposed situation is how many years would it take for the team to advance to the top level of the leagues? This would require advancing from level 5 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 1.

[O Fen�meno]

[capone0]

4.53 years. What kind of question is this. How on earth would any of us know.

[medgar]

meh, too many factors to judge with any accuracy. Assuming the manager was of reasonable ability and you were taking the best from each criteria though (all players were playing 100% etc etc), I'd guess they'd make it to the second tier in straight seasons and should reach the PL in 4, main issue would be the lack of quality in depth.

[New001]

Injuries, age, and other factors would make this hard to do in successive years.

[ThaSaltCracka]

3 EPL players, one arguably the best in the world, would easily carry the team into the championship in 3 years. That 4th year would depend on injuries, but if they were all healthy, it would be 4 years easily.

[talentdeficit]

soccer players have a much shorter peak than most athletes. a team of 12 excellent EPL players (including a number of elite players) today would be pretty awful five years from now, i think. if you picked all players who are 18-22 and you had some decent luck with injuries, you might do it in five years, i guess. seven or eight would be more likely.

[ThaSaltCracka]

Eh, they wouldn't play as many games though, and the top players on the team wouldn't need to play every league game either.

[KDawg]

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3 EPL players, one arguably the best in the world, would easily carry the team into the championship in 3 years. That 4th year would depend on injuries, but if they were all healthy, it would be 4 years easily.

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lol, the teams are a lot more tough then you think at those levels. I can see this team making it into the third tier within 2 or three years, but getting out of league 1 isn't all that easy, look at how nottingham forrest have struggled and Man CIty came very close to losing in teh play off final wehen it was division 2. don't forget that playing against this team would be like a cup final for the other teams that it'd go up against

[ThaSaltCracka]

Happy birthday, but be serious. We are talking about the team having one of the best players in the world.

Just say its 3 EPL players, one being C. Ronaldo in MF.

Not sure if I understand all the parameters OP laid out, but lets say for goalie they have Green from West Ham and maybe Baptista from Arsenal(LOL). They would dominate. Injuries may slow the team down, so I suppose 4 years is crazy, but it would be quick I think.