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Pierlugi Gollini has admitted that he wasn't happy with the training regime at Aston Villa following the sacking of compatriot Roberto Di Matteo.

Gollini, 21, arrived from Hellas Verona last summer and immediately took up the reins as Villa's no.1 goalkeeper.

Despite continuing as first choice under new manager Steve Bruce after Di Matteo's sacking after just 11 Championship games, Gollini has admitted that he didn't feel comfortable in the new regime.

The Italy under-21 international completed a loan move to Atlanta earlier this month and is expected to make it permanent in one of the next three transfer windows.

Gollini, speaking to news agency ANSA , said of his Villa Park exit: “I returned to Italy with the intention of staying and continuing my career here.

"The condition I had set my agent for me to stay in Birmingham was to have an Italian goalkeeping coach. That was the situation, with Massimo Battara, until the manager Roberto Di Matteo was fired.

“I played a great deal at Villa, but I wasn’t happy with the training regime.”