Aston Villa are considering the future of their women’s first team manager Robert de Pauw, The Guardian understands.
After Sunday’s 4-0 defeat by Arsenal in the Women’s Super League, the Midfielder club are now ninth in the table and one point above the relegation zone. De Pauw has won one of the first nine victories in English football.
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According to several sources, senior staff at the club discussed De Pauw’s position on Tuesday and it is not yet certain whether he will remain in custody for Wednesday’s League Cup Group E fixture at home to Championship side Charlton Athletic. Villa are second in the group behind Tottenham and still have a strong chance of reaching the quarter-finals before Wednesday’s group fixtures conclude.
It is also understood that De Pauw did not attend the club’s usual training session on Tuesday. Aston Villa from the Guardian in a comment.
The 43-year-old Villa has been in charge since June, when he signed a three-year deal with an option for a further year. Previously in charge of German women’s team Bayer Leverkusen, they finished sixth in the Frauen Bundesliga last season after finishing fifth in the previous campaign.
Before that double spell in Germany, he served as manager of FC Twente in his native Belgium, lifting the domestic double in 2022, following the spell’s training within the Dutch national youth system.
He succeeded former De Pauw Aston Villa boss Carla Ward, who took charge for three years and oversaw ninth, fifth and seventh place finishes in those three campaigns.