Someone emailed me a link earlier from the Independent which has a season review from the fans perspective.

The Aston Villa fan was Matt Cutler and if he were here now, I'd buy him a pint, for his almost spot on answers to the questions.

Right, last summer I put up a little box with all the comings and goings at the top right hand side of the site and it went down quite well, so I'm doing it again.

As you can see, I'm making a few assumptions to begin with, but for now they'll stay like that and over time, hopefully not too much time, we'll be able to confirm a few of those and add a few more, as and when we hear from the club.

Martin O'Neill is, I'm guessing now as I don't want to make a statement of fact about Martin O'Neill, quite frustrated at all this Gareth Barry to Liverpool talk and it's possible he's little more annoyed at Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez.

Towards the end of his press conference yesterday, Martin O'Neill said he was going to figure out how to say no in Latin and French to Rafa, because he doesn't know any other way to say it. Well, we've gone one step further on got the Spanish for him.

It's easy to get annoyed when we lose to Fulham. It's also very easy when you've won three on the bounce and scored fifteen goals, to get carried away.

What's also very easy, is to forget about what is happening at Aston Villa Football Club, which is why it's nice to use the little search box on the site and look back every now and then.

You want to play with big boys you've got to play by their rules. If Peter Crouch wants £80,000 a week and Martin O'Neill sees him as an integral part of our assault on the top four, them I'm afraid he's got to pay it.

Let's put it another way, if we can get top four football with players all earning £40,000 a week then that's what we'd do, but the simple truth is we won't be able to.

I've said for a long time, even been criticised for it, that you don't need European football to attract quality players.

Sure it helps and it's part of the package, but it's as much about selling a vision, about getting the player to buy into the plans for the club than just been able to offer European football.

This season isn't yet over and we've really still got everything to play for and with the results on Sunday possibly having an impact on players coming in, I've got a feeling some have already been taken care of.

I think this, mostly because Martin O'Neill has, quite professionally, got the squad down to his core players but there is a real immediate need to get more of his players in, ready for our assault on the top four next season.

First off, I didn't expect European football next season at the start of this one, but based on where we stood going into January, I actually hoped for it and thought it a distinct possibility.

That possibility didn't leave me, even after Martin O'Neill spent money on Wayne Routledge and only Wayne Routledge in January, because I kept the faith people kept telling me to keep. I did wonder however, where this faith came from?

Sepp Blatter wants there to be six home-grown players in each European side and intends to impose what is known as the six-plus-five rule by 2011.

Under this rule at least six of your starting eleven must be eligible to play for the national team.