Martin O'Neill has explained quitting Aston Villa in 2010.
he regrets leaving Villa - and the manner of his departure - in the summer of 2010. He insists he would "absolutely stay put", seek to mend his fractured relationship with Randy Lerner and try to push Villa forward if he could have his time again.
He told BirminghamLive: "The bottom line is that if you were asking me now - and in fact even if you'd asked me maybe a year after events - then I would certainly have stayed on at the football club and pushed on.
"I have to say wherever I am as a football manager the owner of a football club has his own decisions to make, and maybe I didn't see that at the time.
"But again, in hindsight, you look and you think he's the owner, he's the one who has tried to improve the football club in many aspects, so that decision should rest with him probably.
"People said it was because he was asking for money and that's an absolute myth, that wasn't the case.
"I did say to Randy that at some stage along you will get your money back for the likes of James Milner, Ashley Young and Stewart Downing and you will make some money in those deals so let us try and push on. They did get the money back.
"I was expecting perhaps more from the likes of Steve Sidwell and Nigel Reo Coker. But overall I thought we had a squad certainly capable of being in the top six again.
"Can we push into those last two positions? That was it. But this idea that I was asking for a lot more was certainly not true."
