Aston Villa may be in for an exciting summer transfer window as manager Unai Emery plans his next moves.
The Spanish coach helped the club finish seventh in the Premier League and qualify for the Europa Conference League.
However, Emery wants to push on and get the team to an even higher level.
On recruitment plans, he stated per Birmingham Live: “I spoke with the players… I wanted to finish the season with them, not today but tomorrow or Tuesday. Some players will be with the national team and we’ll have holidays. I will now start preparing for next season.
“I will speak to the club. The club is working and I’m keeping in touch with the possibilities we can add [signings] for next year; speaking about who we can add and take the decision with players we already have here. Today, it was very important to be focused for this match. But we’ll start now thinking about the next project and be stronger than we have been.”
He then added on needing a bigger squad: “I don’t know exactly. Of course, we can add 10, 12, 15 matches more. When I came here I was thinking about trying to be strong in the Premier League. It was the first competition. Again, I wanted to add possibilities to win trophies; Carabao Cup, FA Cup and, now, if we could add Europe in our way as well.
“It’s another way to win a trophy in the Conference. We have to analyze everything as best as possible about how we can create and build our structure with the players in our squad. Now’s about being thankful with every player given the work they did.”
