Tim Sherwood says he wants to bring the good times back to Aston Villa.

Sherwood insists he won't be satisfied marking time.

"I want to be the best manager," he told the Daily Mail. "I don't want to be nicking a few quid and ticking over - I want to take a club somewhere and achieve. Now, the first achievement would be keeping Villa in the Premier League, but it isn't ultimately what I want to do.

"I don't want to be scrapping around; I want to take them forward. I think I did that at Tottenham. I didn't leave a crumbling house - Mauricio Pochettino has done a good job, but he had it laid out for him, with players like Kane and Bentaleb.

"If Villa stay up, then we can worry about building our philosophy, or whatever the on-trend word is these days. There's no time for that now. We had one foot in the Championship when I arrived and this would be our greatest escape."