Hints:
Easy Wins: Before playing a match select "Add Manager" and choose to manage the team your team is playing next. Change their tactics making sure to leave them without a goalie. After that match retire as a manager and then repeat these steps for your original team's next opponent. 
Get Any Player: Select a rich club and buy the player you want for at least £6,000 more than his value. Keep offering a little more if they do not accept at first. Next offer him a contract of any amount. This only works if your club has a good reputation. 

Recommended Players: 
Kris Taylor (wait until 2004 before buying him)
Frank Baumann
Tayfun
Daniel Andersson
Willy Sagnol
Martin Djeton
Vinicio Espinal
Inacio Pia
Ricardinho
Daniel Osorno
Zoltan Sebescen
Stephane Dalmat
Bernardo Romeo
Edwin Congo 
Ludwig Freden Klenfelt
Tomas Rosicky
Steve Harper (willing to drop down a few divisions and is only 800K at the start) 
Vincenzo Montella
Hernan Jorge Crespo
Patrick Kluivert
Julio Ricardo Cruz
Athirson
Paul Matthijs
Alex Notman
Darren Fletcher (wait until 2003)
Pierre Wome
Vinicio Espinal (buy him midway through first season)
Willy Sagnol 

The following are good players for Division One and the Premiership: 

Omer Riza (West Ham.)
David Healy (Man. U.)
Martin Palermo (Boca) 

Try buying the following players: 

May be worth £25,000,000 after a few years:
Julian Gray
Fausto Rossini
Arjen Robben 
Kahveci Nihat
Giacomo Cipriani 

More to consider buying:
Raul Estevez
John Convery
Stephen Crainey
Lucio
Alan Smith
Julius Aghahowa
Joe Cole
Jamie Smith
Jairo Fernando Castillo
Aydin Musa 
Csaba Feher
Dmitry Parfenov
Denis Yevsikov
Sergey Semak
Diego Quintana
Jorge Luis Anchen
Michael Ballack
Hatem Trabelsi