Kevin McDonald is to Leave Aston Villa.

[olaftab]

Kevin thank you and good luck.

[DrGonzo]

Gutted.  I hope he is leaving to better his current role otherwise we have dropped a bollock.

[villan from luton]

Paul Lambert is the manager, he has to make his own decisions and live or die by them. I wish Kevin McDonald all the best, he would have been a better choice than McLeish for last season, but never happened. Hope he does well in the future

[The Left Side]

All the best KMac and thanks for your service to the Villa.

[eamonn]

Didn't he apply for the Forest job last year too before McLaren got it (who himself wanted the Villa job only us message board fans put the board off apparently. There must have been a lot of us hoping for McLeish in that case...)?

The last two years must have been pretty strange for Kevin after years of diligently and successfully blooding young players for the first team. I can't see him managing, is he close to retirement age? He'll have gone through all the emotions that we have since MON left and after 17 years service with us he might, as suggested earlier, be jaded by it all.

[Ian.]

Thanks for the fantastic service and good  luck for the future. You will be missed.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Thanks for wonderful 17 years and hope you have a good career in future job.

[JD]

Good luck KMac with whatever your future holds and thank you so much for the past 17 years of great service to Villa.   

[Nastylee]

Quite a few assuming Lambert has given him the elbow. TBH, is Kev applied for the job, as we're led to believe, and was unsuccessful then he probably thinks it's a good time to seek pastures new. Besides, having had a taste of the big time after MON left he probably wants to chance his arm at something bigger than baby sitting the kids, etc. All the best.

[TheEgo]

Is he off to Small Heath?

[eamonn]

No!

[silhillvilla]

Thanks for the 17 years hard work Kevin
All the best for the future

[garyshawsknee]

It's a shame in a way,as he was a bridge to the recent histroy of our club. These things do happen when a new guy comes in,things do need to be freshened up.

Thanks for all the good and hard work Kev,continued success in your future employment.

[Matt C]

A shame to see him go and he's been a marvelous servant to the club.

I suspect this was always going to happen though after he was caretaker boss and didn't get the job (twice, even three times if he was interested this summer). Very hard to go back once you've had a taste of the big time. Perhaps now he wants to go and have a crack on his own somewhere - good luck to him.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Thanks Kmac, good luck. This is probably all for the best for his career and a new start at the club.