Stone Cold Steve Journeyman. Revisiting all my former clubs

Ashleigh1984 said:
Some good recruiting on the loan deals, i love it when regens start making there way into the first team, will they or will they not make as a first team player?
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It is heartbreaking though when you stack a youth team then you let one leave and he turns out to be really good!
 

August

We make a utterly stonking start with 4 wins from 4 league games to go with 2 wins in the Carabao cup.


Three games were close but a much more encouraging start






Fixtures
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Championship Table
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Were top by ourselves as the last perfect team, Non of the relegated teams in the top half and at the bottom are Sheffield United who led last season.






World Summer Transfers

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Dybala starts the latest summer of spend at Old Trafford with a couple of English players moving up to top 4 teams.
Mbappe & Keita complete there moves after a year waiting. Laporte and Volland are big moves long term, Tottenham grab Dries Mertens for a bargain which is not what you can say for Steven N'Zonzi moving to Real Madrid
Icardi finally comes to the Premiership while Firmino moves to Napoli with Man Utd and Liverpool making one last big move, David Silva makes the most surprising move down to Arsenal




Aston Villa
We add a keeper and sell back up midfield misfit Henri Lansbury


Sam Johnstone - GK
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His Villa career has come full circle. 13 months after i ended his loan deal he signs up to be our No 1



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September




Urgh Brexit. Why Britain! Why? Its not bad enough its going to make a mess of the country but destroying my squad building in FM is taking it too far!

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In the League cup we struggle to figure who is the Premiership team and who's in the championship?
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Liverpool in the Next round
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Fixtures
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Wolves solid defensive day lead to us dropping points for the first dropped points of our season and so far our only dropped points. Amazing what a sprinkle of Premiership players will do for a team!




Championship Table
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We may have started the season on fire but Ipswich and Barnsley have also made stonking starts and are just behind. The more likely season long threats Middlesbrough, Swansea and Leeds are almost 10 points back and look at the golden boot race, Its not former championship goal machine Dwight Gayle, or big money buy Dennis Man or even our grat freebie pick up Nahuel Leiva. Its our 4th or 5th best striker Keinan Davis thats leading the way with 12 goals from 9 starts. Take that Ronaldo & Messi!




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Nice one mate...what a start! I thought another season in the Championship might do you good rather than going up in your first season and that seems to be the case at the moment! Keep it up fella!
 
Ergh really hope I don't get brexit. Might add something to your story in the long run though!
 
BallyC7 said:
Nice one mate...what a start! I thought another season in the Championship might do you good rather than going up in your first season and that seems to be the case at the moment! Keep it up fella!
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Yep bang on the money there. Unless have a catastrophic second half to the season.


Average Joe said:
Ergh really hope I don't get brexit. Might add something to your story in the long run though!
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I think the best outcome is where free movement remains so you can still pick up great u18s from around Europe. I had a hard brexit in my Aberdeen save last year and that was just awful.
 



October



Carabao Cup 4th Round
Aston Villa 2-0 Liverpool
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Once again it looks like the League cup will be the highlight of our season, personally nothing is better than Liverpool. Not much is going to top this


Quarter Final Draw
Fulham vs Aston Villa
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One of the best outcomes. Fulham have not improved massively since promotion in the summer and are certainly not Liverpool.




We also take Villa on there longest unbeaten run
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Nothing can be perfect though and our star of the season so far Keinan Davis was pushing for a new contract, something i dont hand out at the drop of a hat. He and several squad member have sulked about it, this is for sure the hardest change in the game as last year you just had to say "there was still plenty time on his current deal" and that would be that. Not in FM18 however

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Fixtures
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4 wins from 5 in the league but the Barnsley game is a sore point and of all the games in October thats the one we should have won with a man advantage for almost a hour.




Championship Table
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A great month as the teams around us fall to pieces. Only Barnsley are within 9 points and they have played 2 games more. Still no relegated team fighting in the top 6.



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I usually say "I'll give you a new contract at the end of the season"

Never had them kick up a fuss (unless you forget to do it!) and you get them playing for a year on the current wage
 
Average Joe said:
I usually say "I'll give you a new contract at the end of the season"

Never had them kick up a fuss (unless you forget to do it!) and you get them playing for a year on the current wage
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Is that in Fm18 for you too?
 



November




Wheels come off our Championship wagon as we draw and loose twice




Fixtures
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The worst result of that being a thumping from Brighton




Championship Table
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Despite the drop in form we're still 7 points clear at the top with very little splitting the teams from 2nd and the team in 2nd Leeds is who we face early in December



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December


Villa go a step further and reach the League Cup Semi Final


Fulham 0-3 Aston Villa
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We were on our way before Fulham went down to 10 men and after that it was a walkover




We'll face Southampton in the Semi's next month
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Fixtures
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Sadly our great League cup form doesnt transfer in to League success. We lost another 3 games and were very sloppy just escaping a game with Huddersfield where we were behind until the a stoppage time winner




Championship Table
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There was a time where Leeds and Swansea were right on our tails but a few wins at the end of the month see us stay 4 points clear with a game in hand.



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Nice win over Fulham! Hopefully you can steady the ship in the league :)

Any plans for the Winter transfer window?
 
Disclaimer89 said:
Nice win over Fulham! Hopefully you can steady the ship in the league :)

Any plans for the Winter transfer window?
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There are several premiership quality players available, Mostly strikers of course since i have plenty of them but i will be making some offers to spend some of the money i raised in the summer
 



January


John Terry becomes the clubs oldest ever scorer
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League Cup Semi Finals


1st leg
Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa
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Soton dominated our championship side who could hardly muster a shot on goal in the whole game




2nd Leg
Aston Villa 3-0 Southampton
Villa win 3-2 on Agg
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An unbelievable turn around with most of the work done in a inspired first half in front of our biggest audience at Villa park since i took over




Man Utd at Wembley will be our toughest test in the final.
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Fixtures
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We actually end up having our best Month since September after loosing to Bristol City in the first game of the month we dropped more points at Middlesbrough then won our final 3 games of the month.




Championship Table
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After a sticky start our gap at the top is not 7pts and more importantly were now 11 points clear of 3rd place.



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Doing much better this season - annoying with seemingly random losses thrown in every now and again
 
7 points and with a game in hand, but as you say, its the difference between you and 3rd. Looking good this year, how's Dwight Gayle doing now? He scoring many for you?
 
Mate, how do you paste your screenshots into the story so they are big and people don't need to click on them to open them up? I've been attaching mine and they always appear as thumbnails making it a pain in the **** to open up to view
 
BallyC7 said:
Mate, how do you paste your screenshots into the story so they are big and people don't need to click on them to open them up? I've been attaching mine and they always appear as thumbnails making it a pain in the **** to open up to view
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What i do is press the PrtSc button next to F12 paste that image into a paint document, upload the picture to the site then once the picture appears in your post double left click and it will bring up a screen then just change the image size to full screen and it will be the size mine are.


JT3197 said:
Doing much better this season - annoying with seemingly random losses thrown in every now and again
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To be fair this season i can trace most of them back to multiple changes in the team, too many youths rather than like last year where i was doing all the usual consistent teams ect and were still loosing.


neavie pops23 said:
7 points and with a game in hand, but as you say, its the difference between you and 3rd. Looking good this year, how's Dwight Gayle doing now? He scoring many for you?
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Sadly Gayle got a hip injury and has missed all the festive action. Due back in time for the League Cup final though
 
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