David Jones

Is it that difficult as a manager?

Yes.

Yes.

But listen, there's no doubt Aston Villa spent a lot of money in the summer.

A lot of money.

And it's not to go down their owners.

You know, you spend that everyone's about staying in the Premier League.

Now, I understand people always say there's a club the...

I think it was a couple of years we spent a lot of money and went down.

Aston Villa had to spend a lot of money because I think a lot of players were out of contract and moving on anyway.

So whether they come into the Premier League or not, they had to bring 10 or 11 players in.

So they've spent, but they still spent a lot of money and they won't have, I think they've always known they were going to be in a fight.

But I don't think the owners and people, you know, spending the money, maybe the manager would have expected to go down this season.

So in some ways it has been an underachievement where, certainly where they are at this moment.

Listen, we've got a game in hand.

If they won that game in hand, they're out.

of the bottom three.

But there's no doubt, we haven't seen her as much.

It felt like we saw her a lot a few years ago where someone with seven or eight games just changed the manager.

Sunderland used to have all three or four managers a year and get out, if you remember.