Aston Villa boss Unai Emery admits he did not expect to come back to England so quickly.

Emery was fired by Arsenal earlier in his career, but returned to the Premier League when Aston Villa came calling in 2022.

He has since taken the Villa Park club to new heights, pushing them into the top four race.

"I am adding experiences," Emery told Stadium Astro.

"The Premier League is a really great challenge for me. Always I try to be a better coach today than yesterday, and tomorrow than today. I try to learn a lot with the players, try to take my individual challenges and try to be ambitious in my challenges as well.

"I came back to the Premier League before I wanted, to take a challenge here in, I think, the best league in the world. It is the most difficult in the world.

"Aston Villa, they gave me this opportunity, and after deep analysis of the team and the history, it was a very good opportunity for me to come here and to try to learn more, try to show the experiences that I had before.

"It was also an opportunity to play in Europe because I was playing 15 years in a row in Europe in different clubs. Now here, the challenge I had when I arrived here, progressively we are getting.

"We got the Conference League and now we have a very great way in this year to try and get Europe again. Hopefully Europa League or Champions League.

"I am very ambitious, my message to the players is to get Europe because we will then be very good in the league. At the club, the players, supporters, workers, everybody, they were very committed to follow my message."