• 4 weeks ago
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu on the challenges of facing Aston Villa and their manager Unai Emery in the Premier League
Tottenham Training Centre, London, UK
Transcript
00:00On Aston Villa then, they've gone from almost missing, relegated, to Champions League football in really such a short period of time.
00:08Just how good an appointment was Unai Emery?
00:11Yeah, great appointment.
00:15But, you know, it shouldn't surprise anyone. He was an outstanding manager before he got there, you know.
00:20He'd done an outstanding job and probably another sort of cautionary tale about writing people off
00:26because when he was at Arsenal, you know, people were quick to be dismissive of him.
00:30Whilst other people's memories faded, I think when you're a manager and you see other managers going through what he did,
00:36it's firmly imprinted in your mind and it just goes to show you, like I said,
00:41he was an outstanding manager before he got to Villa.
00:43I think they identified somebody who could come in and, you know, really bring their football club to the levels they want to
00:51and he's done that since he's been there.
00:54They continue to get stronger and challenging will be a good test for us.
01:01I mean, our games against them have been really good last year.
01:04We obviously won at their place and played really well.
01:07I thought we played well at our place too, but they got on top of us.
01:12They obviously got ahead of us for the Champions League spot last year.
01:15So, it's a great competition for us.

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