According to Football Insider, Aston Villa are close to dismissing Dean Smith as their manager and putting John Terry in place.
Terry is the assistant manager at Villa at the moment, and the club reportedly want him to take charge of the first team unit the end of the season.
The report has claimed that Smith could be dismissed should Villa suffer their fifth successive defeat in the Premier League against Chelsea this weekend.
Relegation worries
Villa clinched promotion from the Championship to the Premier League at the end of last season.