Welcome Roberto Di Matteo and Steve Clarke

[Chris Jameson]

The excellent Jim white sky sports  announced on his Twitter a wee while before it was any where hes always reliable on manager and transfer rumours as he's itk.  Old school journo and in with current lot of football family

Have Sky got two people called Jim White? I only know of the excitable idiot who works himself into a frenzy on transfer deadline day.

[not3bad]

Tony Xia can start on his "Dougisms" now:

1. "He was always my first choice"

Once he's got that one out of the way he start practicing with "He's like a son to me".

[Brend'Watkins]

My one concern was that Di Matteo doesn't know the championship and by that I mean a good knowledge already of our opponents strengths and weakness'.  Clarke will be the man for that so this on the face of it appears to be a good team in the making.

[django]

Welcome to Villa!

Wonder if they would of saved us if they were appointed instead of Garde?

They couldn't have done much worse.

[Chipsticks]

Similar to everyone else, I'm chuffed with Steve Clarke as number 2. Very solid appointment.

[clash city rocker]

This pair could be our light at the end of the tunnel.

[damon loves JT]

Similar to everyone else, I'm chuffed with Steve Clarke as number 2. Very solid appointment.

I like a solid number 2 /peen

[mr underhill]

I can't get through a day comfortably without a number two

[cheltenhamlion]

Clarke in as number two looks a good move to me. Highly regarded coach and very recent experience of that league. Impressed. Now let the last buggers spend some money.

[remy]

Lerner gone - TICK

New Manager in - TICK

Pending - Flabby, 'Guzman',  Richards, Richardson, Hutton, Lescock, Okore, Westwood, Big-cahuna, Clark, Cissoko, shitscrapeZog, to all F*** off  and the biggest tick of all.

[The Edge]

How can BBC get the scoop even before it's on the official Villa site?

Anyway, happy with that.  Big, big summer ahead.

They are probably understaffed!

[Somniloquism]

Welcome to Villa!

Wonder if they would of saved us if they were appointed instead of Garde?

No, because they would have come in under Fox and a massively split dressing room, been promised certain backing that the club then reneged on and then abandoned to answer non footballing questions by the upper executives. Also DiMatteo wouldn't have been able to get Clarke in and would have been left with having Black forced onto him when neither party was then invested in doing there damedest in keeping us up.

The new beliefs at the top should now filter down and needs to be followed up with planned player management and requirements as soon as possible. Unfortunately Euro 2016 will probably delay some of the businees we need to do whilst everyone sees if there are any potential standouts available cheaply.

[The Edge]

Welcome to Roberto and Steve. We wish you every success in the world.
I like the look of this pairing.

[Taylor]

I think this is great news. Let's hope Tone gives them some Doubloons.

[Jimmy Rimmer]

some of the press reporting this will be confirmed tomorrow - I thought it was already!

I hope it does happen as reported. I think RDM with Clarke as his number 2 could... could work brilliantly. I can see their different styles and experience really complementing each other. Clarke has always done well as a number 2. And RDM could be great with that kind of support.... fingers crossed there are no ts still to be crossed!