Unai Emery makes surprising admission about Aston Villa’s top four ambitions
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Unai Emery makes surprising admission about Aston Villa’s top four ambitions

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Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says his side are not contenders for a repeat Champions League qualification this term. open image in gallery Unai Emery steered Aston Villa into the top four last season “We achieved last year a top-four position and we have to be demanding, intelligent, hard-working. “We are trying to reduce the distance to those teams and we are doing it, but there are still seven teams with more capacity than us at the beginning of the season.” Emery will have seen how Newcastle fared last season when they had to juggle the Premier League with the Champions League, but has vowed to be competitive. open image in gallery Unai Emery hopes Aston Villa can compete in the Champions League “I don’t want to play in the Champions League getting there and not being competitive.

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7 months, 2 weeks ago
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8 months ago
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
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1 year ago
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1 year, 1 month ago
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1 year, 4 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 8 months ago
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1 year, 8 months ago
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2 years ago
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