Come the end of last season, many predicted Aston Villa to finally turn the corner and start climbing up the table.

In Tim Sherwood they had a promising manager and on the back of the FA Cup final, it was largely ignored that they were outplayed for 90 minutes, the squad would be brimming of confidence and ready to revert to the Villa side under Martin O’Neill.

How everyone was wrong. Once Fabian Delph and Christian Benteke had jumped ship to Man City and Liverpool respectively, they were replaced with a large number of players unproven at this level.