The Spanish coach has overseen extraordinary progress since joining Aston Villa in 2022 and believes that a willingness to keep learning is vital for success in the game.

Emery told Sky Sports: "Football is changing and we must adapt quickly because it demands that you update every day.

"In every process, you must identify how football is changing and the direction it is changing. Update everything. Now, again, I am doing it."

Emery has led Villa to European qualification for the past three seasons and explained that he loves the demands that come with coaching in an ultra-competitive Premier League.

The manager – who previously spent 18 months in charge of Arsenal between 2018 and 2019 – said: "In this country, we must work hard every day to improve and develop different ways with the players. This is my challenge every day.

"The Premier League is the most demanding competition that I can face because the best coaches and the best players are at clubs of huge potential. You play against teams at the bottom and they have good coaches with their own tactical ideas."

Villa have recovered from a slow start to the season to soar up to third in the Premier League table and Emery is pleased with how the team responded to a challenging summer transfer window.

He said: "I was worried. It was a worry. I told the players. Because our emotion was so poor as well. We had some problems in the summer.

"Until we completely closed the transfer window, until the last day, we did not know exactly the squad that we would finish with. But it is football. We started to improve. Progressively, we settled together. (Regained) our focus and our demands.

"The players responded to our demands, they committed to their performances. We needed more from them. We needed consistency to build the team as soon as possible after August. We got the consistency we needed and kept it. Until now, more or less."