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2021-22 Season 1 has run it's course, and Steven Gerrard remains in positions as Aston Villa's manager. A 12th placed finish is respectable, but perhaps underwhelming given the players at his disposal. 47 points is a drop from his predecessor, Dean Smith's, final season in charge, and surely the board are starting to contemplate if he is the right man for the job. Or at least, I would hope they are. Sadly for me, his position is considered stable and a mid-table finish is hardly thrusting him into the spotlight for a supposed "bigger" job. Danny Ings lead the team with 11 league goals; the only player to reach double figures, whilst Lucas Digne's 8 assists were enough to secure himself a £47m end-of-season transfer to Newcastle. True to real life, Man City defended their title from Liverpool, whilst Norwich and Watford returned to the Championship. Burnley massively outperformed reality, and that consigned Brentford to relegation. Sheffield United, not Nottingham Forest, joined Fulham and Bournemouth in promotion to the Premier League for the 22/23 season. Elsewhere, Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich won their respective leagues. Man City finally managed to get their elusive hands on the Champions League trophy, AS Monaco were Europa League winners, and Tottenham secured the inaugural Europa Conference League. The wait continues...

"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person." --Steven Gerrard Every edition of FM, there are certain things I always do. My first save is always with the team I support, Aston Villa. My last save is always the team I support, but this time I'm able to apply the things I've "learned" over the course of the year and, perhaps more importantly, escape from the mundane reality of yet another mediocre Villa season. This year, however, is different. I'm still going to manage Villa. I'm not bold enough to steer from that course. But, as a fan, I know the team well. I know which players I want to build around, and those I want to jettison out of the squad at the earliest opportunity. So, rather than start from day one, I'm going to holiday through until Steven Gerrard leaves, whether that be for greener pastures having guided Villa to the heights of the Premier League or, more likely, having been unceremoniously sent packing as he sends Villa spiralling towards the Championship. The hope is to inherit a squad that won't be so far removed from that which I'm familiar with, but will present a different set of challenges for FM22's final hurrah. For those that have read either of my other two careers, there are a small handful of self-imposed rules that I go by: Use a graphical-attribute skin for players & staff Attributes are shown by colour rather than numbers* Can only sign players who have been scouted I can request scout reports for players it is reasonable for me to know (e.g. it's realistic to believe I am already aware of Cristiano Ronaldo; it's less realistic if I claim to know who Ivo Mammini is) DOF responsible for all negotiations - I'll add players as transfer targets Coaches to be hired from: Applications via Job Centre Former Villa players (or whichever team I am managing at the time) *It might help, if I add a key: Finally, there is a Google Data Studio Report for Player Profiles here. This might make it easier to find who is currently in the squad and how good/bad they are without having to scour through every post for screenshots! Of course, first, I have to wait...

It's not something I was planning on doing, and unfortunately I'm going to be away from my FM computer for another couple of weeks (my work has sent me to India). As both of these areas can be controlled by custom views, you might be able to find how to do it from a skin that already uses % and just copy it over to the relevant folder.

The last 3 graphics are in sitoolkit\skins\fm-widgets\graphics\icons\custom\icon box. I haven't find the first yet.