Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood is ready to make major changes after defeat at home to Stoke City.

Sherwood signed 13 new players in the summer and started seven of them against Stoke but conceded he is yet to strike on the winning formula.

He said: "Absolutely, the team selection shows that every week. I'm trying to find a right way. You can't persevere with a team who haven't won. You have to keep jigging it around to find a solution and at the moment I haven't done that.

"I am the manager and I have to take responsibility for the performance and the result. That's my job and I understand that fully.

"I'm still learning about the guys, we are eight games in and it's disappointing but I would rather be in the bottom three after eight games than in the bottom three with eight games to go.

"They will take time to adapt and I wouldn't say time is running out but the clock is certainly ticking."