Delphouneso

im 2nd at the moment, in first season i signed bassong and the guy is an absolute beast. 5 goals already!

almedia also another good signing. got him for 1.3m and now he is worth double that. sold the flops like collins, dunne, warnock and petrov. no-one wants heskey!!!

dont get that every new game no-one wnats him, really un-realistic

my last game with Villa i managed to sell Heskey to Arsenal for £3.6m. he played like two games for them and they tried to sell him back to me at the end of the season.

Have you tried working on them in training ("defensive positioning)?

Yep but they just keep flying in, really annoying because I'd be top otherwise

are you giving away a lot of free kicks in general? try turning tackling down to easy/normal, i usually always have my CBs on easy tackling. or put more players in your wall. or get a better keeper.

2-1 Villa!

Tore sent off.

Box to Box (with a few adjustments to Player Instructions), in this formation:

sometimes use him as a DM with Support duty if for some reason i'm not playing Makoun.

started a new Villa game with the unofficial January update, transfers so far:

In:

Kyle Walker - £8m

Connor Wickham - £3.5m

Moussa Sissoko - £15m

Cheik M'Bengue - £6m

Atila Turan - £5m

Leonel Galeano - £3.5m

plus a few youngsters/regens for nominal fees.

Out:

Emile Heskey - £3.6m

Stiliyan Petrov - £3.2m

Moustapha Salifou - £500k

Brad Guzan - £2.2m

Stephen Warnock - £3.5m

John Carew - £2.3m

James Collins - £6.75m

Stephen Ireland - £6.5m

Habib Beye - £575k

into my second season now and so far results have been amazing:

the 5-3 against Liverpool was probably the best result, 1-3 down after about 60 mins, brought Fonz on and he scores a hat-trick within 15 minutes of coming on.

GABBYYYY!!!!!!!

disappointing, Brad should really have done better for both goals.

oh ffs.

WALKER YOU **** LEGEND!!!!

Gabby playing down the middle now 4-4-2.

****.

Gabby and Pantsil having a bit of a love in.

did the commentator really just say there's not much difference between Sidwell & Makoun?

the lads look up for this today.

PANTSIL!!!!!!!

YEAAAAAAANNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

He's better than Dunne. He and Collins both offer different things, IMO Carlos is slightly better. For me it should always be Cuellar/Collins with Clark if we actually had a LB.

completely agree with this, i think Cuellar & Clark could be a really good defensive pairing. i don't understand what Carlos has to do to get picked, it's frustrating because i'd really hate to see him go in the summer.

94 passes, 85 successful. brilliant transfer, top notch tonight. if only we had three of him playing in the middle instead of Ash & Petrov.

edit: combined total of both Carrick & Anderson's successful passes: 84.

we weren't expected to get anything out of it but i thought we played well despite the result, stupid mistakes cost us the game though. gave MOTM to Makoun, him & Brad were on top form tonight.

**** off Vidic.

Gabby on for Petrov, go for broke.

we finally have a CM who can pass the ball and our CBs continue to keep lumping it right over the top of him.

typo on SSN, L. Young playing apparently.

bringing Gabby on for the last 20-30 minutes against a tired Vidic could be lethal. be interesting to see how Walker & Albrighton cope with Nani, gonna be a tough game. confident of a win as always though.