Career Quote by Roberto Carlos

I left Birmingham for Wigan because I was impressed with what Paul Jewell was doing, but I ended up back with the gaffer at…

— Emile Heskey

I joined Aston Villa to improve myself in the Premier League. It started well but then I got injured and Villa ended up having…

— Adama Traore

Aston Villa were signing this player and that player, and I was thinking this is my chance to get to the Premier League. I…

— Ross McCormack

I played at Aston Villa for four years and most of the time I loved it there, but typically it took me a while…

— Paul Merson

I went to Villa to be with top players, Ashley Young and Stewart Downing, who create chances.

— Darren Bent

My experience at Villa has been a failure.

— Robert Pires

In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a…

— Randy Lerner

Im from the East Midlands, and when I was playing youth team football, it was in the U18 Midlands league and Villa were the…

— Emile Heskey

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

— Gareth Barry

Aston Villa had been in touch and they'd gone into the Premier League so I knew I could play in the Premier League just…

— Kalvin Phillips

It was difficult at Villa because they'd struggled for two years and I'd come mainly from Barcelona B in the second division in Spain.…

— Adama Traore

In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so…

— Ronald Koeman