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Former Everton and Rangers defender David Weir has joined Aston Villa’s scouting network.

Weir had been working as Rangers’ assistant manager to Mark Warburton prior to the duo’s exits from Ibrox in February.

The 46-year-old will link up with Villa’s technical director Steve Round, who coached him while he was at Everton as a player.

According to sources in Scotland , Weir will form part of the club’s vast scouting network that are tasked with identifying players for the first team and feeding information back into the club’s database.

Weir will join the likes of Ian Atkins, John Harrower and Tony Coton in the club’s revamped scouting department, all of whom have been appointed since Round arrived back in September.

Weir was also Warburton’s assistant at Brentford and briefly enjoyed a spell as manager of League One side Sheffield United but this will be his first official scouting role.