Aston Villa F.C. Season 2023/24 - I can see the finish line!
To keep my post shorter and easier to read, I decided to do report for third quarter of our 2nd season at Aston Villa.
January 2024 Transfer window
Let's start with the transfer news since we made a couple of deals in January. Once again I was little frustrated with our attacking options and decided to sign a new striker. I sent my scouts to discover all the corners of the World and they returned with suggestions to buy Brazilian Marcos Leonardo. The 20-year-old striker had scored 21 goals and assisted further 7 in his last season at Brazilian Serie A and he was available for £15 million, so I got him.
To make way for Leonardo, I decided to sell Ollie Watkins for £27,5M to Leeds United. You can see his profile below and you can get the idea why he is such a frustrating player. He has great physicals, some okay technicals but decisions of 11 and composure of 10 means he will always be an inconsistant finisher and in order for us to make the next step, he needed to be sold.
I made one more striker signing, although the player in question will only join us the next summer. Our Brazilian scouts recommended us to sign Endrick from Palmeiras and although I feel these Brazilian wonderkids are like cheat codes and often take the fun and realism out of the game, I decided to sign him for £12,5M nevertheless. Endrick has some development to do on his mentals but he is only 17 years old and has all the time and tools in his posession to become one of the best players in football, so I reckon its better to have him on our side than opponents'.
Profiles of bought/ sold strikers below:
Fixtures
We have played 11 games in PL since our last update and won 6 drawn 4 and lost 1 of them. We also got eliminated from FA Cup via 5th round loss against Tottenham.
I guess its fair to say our form took a small dip during this time period but its nothing too drastic I would say.
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After 30 gameweeks we are 5th in the league 1 point behind Chelsea, who have also played 1 game less than us.
We will certainly give our all to qualify for the Champions League but at least we should qualify for Europa League this time around as 7th placed Manchester United are 10 points behind us.
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To keep my post shorter and easier to read, I decided to do report for third quarter of our 2nd season at Aston Villa.
January 2024 Transfer window
Let's start with the transfer news since we made a couple of deals in January. Once again I was little frustrated with our attacking options and decided to sign a new striker. I sent my scouts to discover all the corners of the World and they returned with suggestions to buy Brazilian Marcos Leonardo. The 20-year-old striker had scored 21 goals and assisted further 7 in his last season at Brazilian Serie A and he was available for £15 million, so I got him.
To make way for Leonardo, I decided to sell Ollie Watkins for £27,5M to Leeds United. You can see his profile below and you can get the idea why he is such a frustrating player. He has great physicals, some okay technicals but decisions of 11 and composure of 10 means he will always be an inconsistant finisher and in order for us to make the next step, he needed to be sold.
I made one more striker signing, although the player in question will only join us the next summer. Our Brazilian scouts recommended us to sign Endrick from Palmeiras and although I feel these Brazilian wonderkids are like cheat codes and often take the fun and realism out of the game, I decided to sign him for £12,5M nevertheless. Endrick has some development to do on his mentals but he is only 17 years old and has all the time and tools in his posession to become one of the best players in football, so I reckon its better to have him on our side than opponents'.
Profiles of bought/ sold strikers below:
Fixtures
We have played 11 games in PL since our last update and won 6 drawn 4 and lost 1 of them. We also got eliminated from FA Cup via 5th round loss against Tottenham.
I guess its fair to say our form took a small dip during this time period but its nothing too drastic I would say.
After 30 gameweeks we are 5th in the league 1 point behind Chelsea, who have also played 1 game less than us.
We will certainly give our all to qualify for the Champions League but at least we should qualify for Europa League this time around as 7th placed Manchester United are 10 points behind us.
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