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I just can't get my tactics right at all. Played a season on my old computer. I was 5th most of the season but in the last 4 games all I needed was a point to secure 5th but my team just wouldn't play lost all the games. Worst of all was my last game with Friedel letting in a shot from the half way line that barely even rolled over the line. He should have just picked it up but instead just side stepped and let it roll past him. It didn't even reach the net I was so angry. We finished 9th and all my decent players ended up leaving.

Today I have spent the whole day trying to build a tactic that might work but nothing I do has any success. Tried using ones from the tactics forum but nothing works. I can dominate games but my team just won't score.

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Need help with current team, who to buy who to sell ect ect

im at the start of the second season, just got a budget of 30 million to spend on players and this is my team at the moment

GK: Friedal, taylor, guzan

DF: Young, Shorey, Laursen, Bouma, Davies

MF: Soley, Gardner, Diarra, Costa, Veloso, Sidwell, Fiore, Milner, Young

ST: Gabby, Donovan, owen, Ronaldo(Fat), Carew

willing to sell any of my players to be replaced.

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Ive just finished my first villa season in 13th

squad harmony is so low you cant even see it on the bar

but got 3 quality youngsters coming in during the summer

Sanchez at udinese for £5.25m

Fausto Rossi at juventus for £1.1m

Gabriel Obertan at bordeaux for £5.5m

They were all offered to me btw.

Will be looking to sell barry and shorey in the summer

hopefully ill be given more money to spend when the season ends.

Craig gardner done well in cm

but veloso has been dreadful so hopefully hell come good next season.

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Need help with current team, who to buy who to sell ect ect

im at the start of the second season, just got a budget of 30 million to spend on players and this is my team at the moment

GK: Friedal, taylor, guzan

DF: Young, Shorey, Laursen, Bouma, Davies

MF: Soley, Gardner, Diarra, Costa, Veloso, Sidwell, Fiore, Milner, Young

ST: Gabby, Donovan, owen, Ronaldo(Fat), Carew

willing to sell any of my players to be replaced.

ok just sold Owen for 20 mill and Milner for 17 so ive got 67 million to spend on players also going to sell sidwell for 10 :) so 77mill what should i do?

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Hardie where did you finish in the league ?

and how did veloso do for you in the first season ?

Finished 7th 5 points for 5th and Semis in Uefa cup, veloso did well first season won some games for me :)

ronaldo(fat) ha love it

Couldnt describe him in a better way at the time, should of said the "brazilian" one

check out axel witsel guys his stats are immense.

will do :) would it be worth retraining him to a CM position?

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Board just intervened and sold cuellar for £10m

everybody seems to want young and im not selling him for less than £25m

Man utd came in with a pathetic bid for davies of £5.25m and now hes upset about not being allowed to move clubs

Although luton get a precentage of his transfer fee so ya never know

Luton being my club and all

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My God Off season is mad

Sold

Cuellar £10m

Milner £18m

Sidwell £5m

Looking to sell barry £15-20m

So ill have around £70m to spend and ive already bought in some quality youngsters

Already Bought

Fausto Rossi £1.1m

Niko Kranjcar £6.25m

Alexis Sanchez £5.75m

Gabriel Obertan £5.5m

Need a left back and cb

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First Season...Finished 11th! but i won Uefa Cup beat Seville in the final 1-0 :)

My team so far

L.Franco

M.Laursen - C.Cuellar - M.Richards

A.Young - E.Benaga - B.Jankovic - G.Dos Santos

M. Fernandez

M.Owen J.Carew

Subs:

S.Asenjo

N.Reo-coker

F.Aurellio

K.Doyle

G.Barry

H.Saivet

O.Apam

Biggest Transfers out:

1) £18 million - James Milner to Spurs

2) £28 million - Curtis Davies to Man City

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Doing pretty well so far in my first season, 5th in the league (W7 D3 L3 F28 A18). This includes a 4-0 win at Anfield :D

Won one & lost one in the UEFA Cup group stage.

Lost 4-1 to Ipswich in the Carling Cup. Not sure how though as we had 22 shots compared to their 13, and 58% possession.

Carew & Balotelli banging em in :)

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I changed the squad after the first season after the squad harmony was dreadfull and these are the players i sold and bought.

SOLD --------- BOUGHT

Cuellar -£10m -- Sanchez -£5.75m -- Craig Gordon -£6.5m

Sidwell -£5m -- Fausto Rossi -£1.1m -- Keirrison -£12.25m

Milner -£18m -- Gabriel Obertan -£5.5m

Heskey -£500k -- Kranjcar -£6.25m

Carew -£5m -- Saivet -£4.1m ---- Total Amount Sold -£67m

Barry -£18m -- Joe Mattock -£4.5m ---- Total Amount Bought -£79m

Shorey -£6m -- Ashton -£13m

Young -£4m -- Steven Taylor -£5.5m

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can anyone give me some suggestions on what team i shoul play?

after really good form i have just suddenly flopped!

My formation and players are:

GK Frey/Friedel/Taylor

DC Laursen/Davies/Cuellar/Knight(looking to sell though)

LB Shorey/Magnin(loan)/Srna

RB Young/Srna/Gardner

MC Reo-Coker/Petrov/Barry/Gardner

MR Milner/Routledge/Young/Saivet/Arshavin/Reo-Coker

ML Same players + Barry (except Reo-Coker)

TS Pogrebynak/Carew

SS Agbonlahor/Arshavin/Saivet/Young(Ash's Bro)

------GK------

DR-DC-DC-DL

-/------------\

MR-MC-MC-ML

-/------------\

----TS--SS----

Who should i play to turn my luck around?

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first game got bugged so started again.

8th in the table with 16 points after 12 games in november

brought in:

Lassana Diarra - Pompy - £11.75 Mill

Hulk - Porto - £9.5 Mill

Belletti - Chelsea - Loan

Milevskyi - Dinamo Kiev - £10.75 Mill

Soley - None - Free

Total: 32M

Sold

McGurk - Tamworth - Loan

Taylor - Man City - £2 mill

Knight - Sunderland - £5 mill

Harewood - Wigan - £5 Mill

Petrov - Boro - £5.75 Mill

Salifou - Cov - £1.75 Mill

Carew - Boro - £7.25 Mill

Stieber - Bournemouth - Loan

Gardner - Stoke - £5 Mill

Forester/Lowry - Cardiff - Loan

Clark - accrington - Loan

Total: 31M

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sold the usual...knight,harewood,salifou,taylor...brought in caceres(loan barca) eidur g(loan barca) d costa(gremio arriving in jan) veloso(sporting) witsel(standard) played 3-5-2 as hav lots of c.b options. 10 games, won 6,drew 0, lost 4. beat man utd away after counter-attacking and chelsea at home....but lost home to m'boro, away to newcastle and spurs.

so doing well against the big boys but not so good against weaker( like real life villa!) need a good c.f and veloso,carew,eidur hav not been performing consistantly. 3-5-2 works well but occasionally opposition wingers can cause trouble. may try new formation if there is any successful 1s out there 4 the villa team

agree bout friedel underrated and a young/gabby. 4.5 mill for harewood...i was laughing all the way to the bank

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I started as Villa, but I am only playing on the demo, so it is purely an experimental game. :)

Transfers In -

Miguel Veloso - £12.5m

Pavel Pogrebnyak - £10m

Transfers Out -

None have been made of yet, and probably won't, as I want to give every member of the squad a fair chance.

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I have now just completed my third season as Villa, and have been offered the Chelsea, Man Utd and Tottenham jobs, which i have found a bit bizarre. So far i have come 7th, 8th, 8th and won the league cup and F.A. cup...i dont think good enough to have those jobs offered to me....but I declined all three !

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Ok im looking for some tips on where to improve the team.

In.

M Owen 6mil

D Beckham Free (MLS glitch)

Belletti Loan

Out.

Z Knight 3mil

N Reo-Coker (In talks with Man City in a 7m deal)

M Harewood (Unhappy and is probly going to go for 4-6mil)

Where shall I improve, First Season just abouts to finish pre-season, Im not a Villa fan so im not too sure if the team I start with is good enough!!

EDIT: I have 1.5million plus what ever i get from sales that are going on!

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I have just completed my first season. Finished 7th in the league & won the FA cup, also made it to the 2nd KO round of the UEFA cup (beat AC Milan in the previous round).

I have just had to sell Cuellar as he demanded a move. Got £20m for him from Real Madrid. Also sold Sidwell for £5m & Carew for £7.5m.

Brought in Huntelaar (£7.5m), Caceres (£11m), Radoi (£3.4m) & Di Maria (£6m). Still have £15m to spend which I will probably use to bring in some young talent.

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