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“Not yet (not decided). But he’s a fantastic player.
"He will need another contract, and maybe it could be here. In case he’s playing his best football, we will want him. Maybe other teams could be involved in the interest for him.
“The first part of the season was not enough. He was working, he was trying, but he was not achieving the performances needed. I spoke to him a few times about the challenge he has, and he must be very demanding in himself, like he is now.
"There’s no time to wait for anyone. We need everyone to be focused, with their qualities and preparation, to play helping the team. We believed in him at the start of the season, we believed in him in December, and we believe in him now, and I believe he’s getting better.”
Unai Emery on Jadon Sancho.

“We are not thinking (about) the end of the season, we are thinking now.
“We can speak about how we were in September, and we are enjoying. We are enjoying the process, we are competing, and we are feeling comfortable with how we are doing our season.
“Up and down sometimes, but more up than down, we were a lot of matches in a row winning.
“Now, we had two defeats at home, and can understand something can happen. We analyse with the players, we analyse those matches, and of course, we are trying to avoid some mistakes we did, or some circumstances we had.
“But now, I am positive. The players as well, they are working very well every day. They played a fantastic game on Saturday, competing fantastic in Bournemouth, and tomorrow, we have a new challenge.
“The challenge at home in Villa Park, of course, is to try to get our full energy, our full wishes, and our focus to prepare the game as better as possible, and to compete against a very good team, and play in Villa Park with our supporters, always is something very, very special for us to play there.”
Unai Emery, pre-match.

“They [Brighton] are competing fantastic. They have less points than they deserve, clearly.
“Watching them playing, watching how they are playing, I like a lot, because I think they are being consistent in their style, and it’s a team playing good football in combination. It’s a team playing intense and very good press to the opponent.
“They lost some points, but like in Fulham, when they were winning 1-0, they lost 2-1, but they deserved more. They drew against Manchester City away, and they deserved more. They competed fantastic at home against Crystal Palace, but they lost.
“I think they are a team, really playing good football, fantastic football, and tomorrow, they are going to play like they are. We will need tomorrow to get our strong structure defensively, stopping them.
“They are going to play in combination, they have as well very good wingers, they have as well two very good strikers. They can play long ball second action, but they are playing more in combination with (Pascal) Groß.
“Groß gives them a lot, because he’s a very intelligent player, and his comeback for them is fantastic.
“(Carlos) Baleba is so strong in the middle. Diego Gómez is so competitive. They have experienced players. (Lewis) Dunk is a fantastic central defender.
“The goalkeeper plays very good in combination with the ball. And defensively, they are being so intense and getting a lot of duels man-to-man. Everything I am speaking about, we are going to face tomorrow.”
“I think he’s doing very good work. How he did in Germany, and now, in Brighton for two years, I think, how they are playing, is really something I appreciate a lot.
“They are very competitive, and playing good football. When you can watch one match of Brighton, you are watching a match, you are enjoying, because they have good structure tactically, they play good ideas with a style playing, and they have very good players as well, and I like it.
“I think he has a really huge future as well as a coach, and of course, to be in England at 32 years old is a privilege for him as well, to get his career.
“But I respect him a lot, and I really like how they are playing, and tomorrow, I know, it’s a tough, tough match for us.”
Unai Emery on Brighton.

“From when I arrived, we’ve been on such an amazing journey.
“To be here now, it feels like we deserve to be here – it’s not the first season we’ve been challenging for the top four.
“Incremental progress and incremental improvement is what we’re after. Everyone knows the financial benefits of getting in the Champions League and the rewards that has for the club.”
Tyrone Mings

“Very important here with our supporters.
“We recovered a little bit the energy we needed, but there’s still work to do to recover more – more for us, for the supporters.
“And, of course, we are with 50 points, and today, how we achieved those three points, really is fantastic.
“Tough match, difficult match. The last two matches at home in Premier League, we lost.
“Today was very important to try to compete, to try to recover our mood individually and collectively, energy, winning of course is helping us.
“And, of course, keep going. And today, one step forward during the season, really, we needed it.
“It was equal, the match, but I think we got more in their box, and we were creating some corners as well offensively.
“We started well, we had two chances with Morgan. More or less, the expectation I had before the match was in the plan.
“And then, we planned 90 minutes because how we could manage the match, how they were as well managing the match, it was very, very important to be resilient in 90 minutes, and as well to try to be passionate when we were not dominating.
“More or less, we dominated sometimes, they dominated sometimes as well, but how are were working as well set-pieces and how we scored through Tyrone Mings is very important – another way we are adding.
“And then, 50 points. Of course, happy today, and try to recover our energy, try to recover our good form, try to recover confidence. Today was really very important, those three points, for it.”
Unai Emery, post match.

"We all know we didn't deserve to lose. We deserved so much more. In games like this, the team that scores first wins. Villa did it out of nowhere with a set-piece. I feel sorry for the supporters."
Fabian Hurzeler

“Everything we do is for the fans.
“We’re only here for a short amount of time, so we respect the fans’ expectations, and their expectations are very high playing for this football club, and so they should be.
“If we can send them home happy more often than not, we’re doing our jobs.
“I said before the game that Brighton is a team that deserves more points than they have; they’re a fantastic football team.
“They caused Manchester City a lot of problems, they cause every team problems, and from the clips we watched, we knew it would be a difficult game.
“Here, we haven’t been the best in recent weeks, so it was important to get back to making this a tough place to come. Usually, that starts with being hard to beat and seeing what happens at the other end.
“It didn’t look like much was going to happen at the other end because they’re a good defensive team, and any team you go and play against in this league is so difficult.”
Tyrone Mings

"The Premier League is crazy, you never know what can happen. We are taking everything one step at a time. The Champions League places is where we want to be.
"It was well-needed that win, it has been tough the last few games at home. Tonight we had to get the victory, regardless of how we got it.
"Mings said to me to go for the front post, but I was already going to do that! It was great that we got the goal from it.
"Tyrone Mings is massive for us, I have been with him for five years and everyone can see his commitment to the club. He is so important to this team, we can all see it.”
Leon Bailey

"Games are so tight, if it was 1-0 to them, everyone would say we were rubbish, but fortunately we got the right result tonight."
Tyrone Mings.