UNAI EMERY interview: Jhon Duran Exit means Aston Villa to attack football messages with a focus on “recreational talents”

The week when Aston Villa confirmed its place in the last 16 of the Champions League, they also sold their top scorer. Jhon Duran’s departure will be a disappointment for some. The challenge for Unai Emery is to ensure that the changes make the villa stronger.

Dealing with the Twin tests of the Premier League and Europe was an issue of the season. They go to Wölfen on Saturday after the highest level of this victory over Celtic on Wednesday and knew that they have not won after a European game since September.

But in the past few weeks in which Diego Carlos and Emiliano Buendia have left the building, the transfer window has included additional distraction. How is the man expected to manage all of these moving parts that deal with the countless requirements?

“It’s always a busy time in football,” says Emery Sky Sport. “Even if you rest, even if you are on vacation, our thoughts always think a little close to football, the squad around the players around the goals with which we are confronted.”

Another constant topic of the campaign was how to record Duran next to Ollie Watkins in the Villa team. It was a mystery that Emery could never solve. Her last game together for half an hour in Monaco was no success.

Speak on the club’s training grounds while the screens are playing Sky Sports News Tell the interest in Joao Felix, Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford, Emery explains his plans for life after Duran. Do not expect to try to replace the Colombian striker as for Like.

“We are in a new way,” he emphasizes. “I practice how we can play with Donyell. The club works (on the players) to join us, but now we now have players in the squad to play, be ready to be versatile and play positions in different games . “

Painting, a £ 21 million from Borussia Dortmund, made his debut on the right wing of the bank against West Ham, but Emery believes that if necessary, he can use it as a striker. It may be a better solution. Players who can cover Watkins, but can also play with them.

“Ollie has always been consistent and normally he can play because he is also physically a very strong player and played for 90 minutes in a row of games. But of course we have to have a plan B if it is not available for 90 minutes or a couple Play games.

“But we have players in the squad with this possibility. Painting Donyell and Morgan Rogers played as strikers. Of course we watch the last days of the transfer window when we can sign a striker a striker with the possibility of attacking in many ways in the third.”

Versality has been important lately. Against West Ham, Lucas Digne had to violate a violation of Tyrone-Mings to play as a provisional middle class. Against Celtic, Boubacar Kamara played out with Matty Cashs earlier, who forced Lamare Bogarde to be a right -back.

“The players we have am very proud of how they react with the level we have to achieve under different circumstances. We moved to West Ham at home, but we reacted very well against Celtic last Wednesday The answer was quick.

“The most important thing is that you do not react to it, but before that when we need you how you are prepared. I am the proud of that. I can feel that the players are always open to help and support everyone that I have to meet. “

Getting more of the players is what Emery does. It is worth remembering that nine of the starting positions that Celtic defeated were in the club when he arrived in October 2022, whereby the villa was in the lower six of the Premier League table. He improves the players.

He also fixes them and prefers to persuade the best of a talent that had not been maximized than to take someone with a lower blanket. This is something that Monchi, the President of Villa’s football operations, is referred to the interest in Joao Felix and Asensio.

“Recovery of talents”

Monchi’s comments on Emery, in which he best referred to him in “recreational talents”, replies: “We worked together in Seville for four years. He talks about two players, they do not play consistently in their club, Asensio and Joao Felix . “

“You are potential players, maybe we can add, but we have other players who are waiting on our list.” The same could of course be said by Rashford. “When some of them come, this is my challenge, try to get the best out of them and to be protagonists with them.

“But I am positive about the process, the demand that we confronted with the players. As a team, we did not have John McGinn from injuries back last year.

“Really, that is my motivation, like we also have the player we have and how we can manage the goal we have in front of us.” The next goal? Well, that’s simple. Set Europe in your heads and beat the wolves on Saturday.

“After playing in Europe, the motivation we have to play in the Premier League should play players, as a team and as a club.

“Of course you also have to enjoy it. Different competitions play every few days. We concentrate on wolves. It means a lot for the supporters. And attempts to win.

“Every game is a challenge. Now the most important thing against wolves. My interest in winning is the same as the Champions League. Still in the Premier League because we will achieve our goals through the Premier League.”

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