Deluded John Carver needs to wake up and get out of his fantasy world, because he is setting his expectations worryingly high for a coach whose stock is shockingly low, so low in fact that a player of the popular Football Manager video game would stand a higher chance of landing the post at Villa Park.

But wait…. Isn’t he the ‘best coach in the Premier League’?

This bold claim which Carver expressed last season has definitely kept him in the minds of football fans everywhere, unfortunately however not for the right reasons.

Former Newcastle boss John Carver recently confirmed that he had in fact applied for the vacant Aston Villa job and also back in November confirmed that he had applied for the vacant manager's role at Championship side Fulham, prior to the appointment of ex-Watford manager Slavisa Jokanovic.

But just because you have coached in the Premier League doesn’t automatically give you the right to expect another top job as a manager, especially when you only have a mediocre five minutes’ worth of experience as the manager of a football club and you essentially fell flat on your face.

To remain at one club long enough to impress you have to be a great coach, and Carver may well be a great coach but he is far from the best and probably one of worst managers in the English game based on his performance at Newcastle last season.

When asked about the Villa post, Carver said: "I have had a long lay-off, I am ready to go again. Aston Villa is a fantastic football club and I would say there will be at least 100 applications for this job.

The facts don’t lie and there were a total of 47 manager dismissals in the 2014-15 season, the most since the 2001-02 campaign when 53 were sacked, coupled with the average life-expectancy of a manager at a single club getting lower and lower each season with the average term for a Premier League boss currently standing at 1.8 years, the average tenure of managers in England standing at just 1.23 years and most concernedly of all is the average spell in charge of a Championship club which is just 0.86 years.

You must face facts and with 50% of first time managers losing their job in the first year and 50% of first time managers never get another job, you have got to prove yourself during your first job which Carver failed to achieve and therefore in my opinion John Carver will follow the above statistics and never get another job in football management.

Carver has been out of work since leaving Newcastle last June after helping the North East club maintain their Premier League status on the final day of last season.

The 51-year-old who was asked to take over as manager from Alan Pardew at the end of 2014, but only won a mediocre three of his 20 matches in charge of Newcastle and also presided over a run of eight successive league defeats - a club record for the Magpies in the Premier League, again demonstrating his lack of ability.

If Carver has the ambition to one day manage in the Championship or Premier League, then he has got to prove his worth as a manager and not a coach, and the only way he could achieve this is to apply for more realistic positions in League two or potentially even League one, there are some great clubs at that level who could take a chance on the 51-year-old.

Carver must take a similar route to QPR boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink who was more than willing to manage in the fourth division of English football because he had to prove his worth after holding very little experience prior to his appointment with Burton where he was on salary of just £40,000 a year demonstrating that the Former Chelsea striker's love for the game outweighs his desire for cash after becoming one of the lowest paid managers in the top 4 divisions.

After impressing at Burton with a promotion winning campaign, Hasselbaink earned his worth and was appointed as QPR’s new manager back in December.

The fact is that Hasselbaink worked for his big job whereas Carver expects the easy route.

Midlands side Villa, who parted company with Remi Garde on Tuesday, currently sit bottom of the Premier League, 12 points from safety with only seven matches remaining and are without doubt going to play in the Championship next season and if they are keen to avoid a second relegation in succession to League one they have got to steer clear of Carver and avoid him like the plague.

Villa fans… what do you think? Should you take a chance of ‘the best coach in the Premier League’? or should you opt for someone who has been there and done it? Let us know your thoughts below!