PAINFUL DEPARTURE : Aston Villa sack head coach 24 hours after defeat to Arsenal due ……
Aston Villa fires head coach 24 hours after losing to Arsenal because of a painful departure.
After five straight Premier League losses, Aston Villa fired head coach Dean Smith, and they will now look to Denmark’s Kasper Hjulmand as a possible replacement.
Based on “not seeing the continuous improvement in results, performances and league position” from the previous season, the club has decided to make a change during the upcoming international break, according to chief executive Christian Purslow.
But as the November international break approaches, Villa are 16th and just two points outside the Premier League’s bottom three following Friday’s 1-0 defeat at Southampton.
Villa have not yet settled on a favoured candidate and will conduct a thorough process to evaluate who will be their next head coach – but Hjulmand is well known to Villa sporting director and fellow Dane Johan Lange.
