well if we're talking about ex villa players, one of my most inspired signings for zilina has been josh onomah on a free. been outstanding for me.
sold a top youngster for a few hundred grand which allowed me to build a team that absolutely destroyed the league in my 2nd season, and just got all the way through the various qualifiers to the CL league stage. went up against dynamo zagreb in the playoffs who i thought would batter me but i breezed through them. first game of the league was my easiest fixture (FC zurich) and battered them 4-0. just the small matter of the likes of juve, chelsea and barca to come
with all this money i've got now for a team of my stature, you'd thing the board might've accepted my requests to improve the intrastructure (training, youth etc) wouldn't you? would they ****