Former U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley is in the running to become Aston Villa's director of football, sources have told ESPNFC.

Villa are searching for a director of football to help manager Tim Sherwood in a new-look management set-up at Villa Park.

Villa owner Randy Lerner and chief executive Tom Fox see the creation of a director of football role to work alongside the manager as part of the long-term vision to help the club try and recapture former glories.

Lerner and Fox are thought to...

Tim Sherwood has pledged to banish Aston Villa's relegation struggles -- if they survive this season.

Sherwood's side are second bottom of the Premier League standings, languishing in the drop zone on goal difference, ahead of Tuesday's home midlands derby against West Brom.

They have battled at the wrong end of the table for the last five campaigns and have lost their last seven games, but Sherwood vowed to end the troubled times -- if they stay up this term.

He said: "It's no laughing matter now....