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		</div><p>Aston Villa have sacked manager Roberto Di Matteo after just 123 days, the club have announced.</p>
<p>The Italian has left with Villa 19th in the Sky Bet Championship despite spending around £50m in the summer.</p>
<p>Di Matteo was appointed in June with a remit to gain an instant return to the Premier League after relegation last season but won just one of his 12 games in charge.</p>
<p>Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 defeat at Preston proved the final straw and a Villa statement read: &#8220;Aston Villa Football Club has today parted company with manager Roberto Di Matteo.</p>
<p>&#8220;The club decided to act following a run of disappointing results which has left the team occupying 19th position in the Championship.</p>
<p>&#8220;The club would like to place on record its appreciation to Roberto for all his efforts in helping rebuild the squad and wish him well for the future.&#8221;<br />
Assistant manager Steve Clarke will be in caretaker charge but Villa do not play again until after the international break, when they host Wolves on October 15.</p>
<p>Di Matteo&#8217;s reign is the shortest of any permanent Villa boss in the club&#8217;s history and they are now looking for their fifth full-time manager since February 2014.</p>
<p>The former Chelsea manager made nine signings in the summer, including spending £12million on Ross McCormack and £15million on Jonathan Kodjia, but the strikers have scored just three goals between them and McCormack had a penalty saved against Preston at the weekend.</p>
<p>He has also paid the price for Villa dropping 11 points in the final five minutes of games, when they have conceded five goals.</p>
<p>Villa&#8217;s net spend was £34million and Di Matteo had made assurances to the club&#8217;s hierarchy they would win promotion if they were in the top six at Christmas.</p>
<p>But they are 15 points behind leaders Huddersfield and owner Tony Xia, who bought the club in the summer, has acted &#8211; with Steve Bruce and Brentford boss Dean Smith linked to the vacancy.</p>
<p>Xia tweeted after the decision was announced: &#8220;A difficult decision 4the board. But rather sooner than later we&#8217;d make the decision. All need learn¬ repeat mistakes again &#038; again.&#8221;</p>
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