Villa's Stephen Warnock insists he causes no trouble

Stephen Warnock today insisted he was "not a troublemaker" at Villa after he spoke for the first time about being frozen out by manager Paul Lambert.

The left-back was forced to train with the Villa development squad before he joined Championship side Bolton on a three-month loan deal last week.

Lambert's decision to ask him to train with the youth teamers puzzled Warnock but the 30-year-old does not bear a grudge with the Scot.

"Myself and Alan Hutton had been deemed surplus to requirement," explained Warnock.

"The manager had his own way of doing things but I'm not looking back at that now. It was difficult but you've got to respect the fact each manager makes his own decisions.

"I'm not a troublemaker or anything like that, so I'd like to think I could have trained with the first team, but that's the manager's decision and he has his own way of doing things.

"I think the way I look at it now is that my time at Villa has probably passed, so things have to move on. As soon as you get told you're surplus to requirements, you are a footballer and you want to get out and play football."