The Spanish coach has led the Midlands club to the Champions League after overseeing remarkable progress during his two years in charge but is determined to lead the team to their first piece of silverware since 1996.

Emery - whose team will aim to keep their perfect start in Europe's top competition going against Bologna on Tuesday (22.10.24) - said: "I don’t want to waste my time here, that is my message. You can’t waste your time here.

"My objective here is to keep the same level we have now, Champions League and add more to be contenders for titles.

"This is the message, we love football, we love our work and we want to be successful.

"We want to achieve the objectives and one of them is to play in the Champions League. It is not about playing there only because of some circumstances - I want to us to stay there for a long time.

"But it is difficult. Maybe sometimes you can have some problems or struggle in our way, but you have to be resilient. We want to be strong in the idea in our mind and create a strong mentality to always break barriers."

Villa have made an excellent start to the campaign but this is not enough to satisfy the coach.

Emery said: "We are fourth in the Premier League, we are with two wins in the Champions League.

"I want it and I want it to be always winning more matches than losing and trying to work hard to keep it for a long time.

"Tomorrow hopefully we will play showing we believe we can compete. I don’t know how far we are going to get but in this moment we are here, in a good position in the Premier League and Champions League."