Well personally i didnt buy any players during the first transfer window as thats my practice to play with the original team at least half a season. that being said, i bought
Mahamadou Diarra and
Andreas Hinkel for backup purposes. Other than that, pretty much stayed with the team. Then in Jan, i bought
Armin Bacinovic,
Ryan Shawcross as I am using Zero Sea's tactics and change bought players according to the filters. This is my table at the end of the season.
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and this is my team at the end of 1st season. Im already at 2nd season, with players like
Andre ter Stegen,
Rafael van der Vaart,
Cesar Azpilicueta (sp) to boost different weak areas.
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Basically, Aston Villa has a rather strong team by themselves, easily Euro Cup or in my case, Champions League. Buy one defender as Collins, Cuellar, and Clark are decent but not quite enough. I rotated Marc Albrington, Gabby Agbonlahor and Nathan Delfouneso around the positions of AML inside forward and Striker so probably you need another striker for backup,
Vaclav Kadlec maybe? You certainly need another MC as both Petrov and Jenas can't stay on pitch for the whole game. Up to you who you want to buy, different players use different MC for their tactics so i wont put any players here.
I cant advise on who to sell sorry

i normally just sell players that are fringe to me in Jan, such as Stephen Ireland, Heskey was pretty useless to me, Habib Beye an