Aston Villa manager Unai Emery is to be boosted this pre-season by the return of a host of senior players who missed sizeable chunks of the 2023/24 campaign. Villa returned to Bodymoor Heath on Monday before they travel to Slovakia, the USA and Germany for their pre-season tour.

Villa's squad, after their flurry of summer signings, is a sizeable one, although there are a host of players who haven't reported for duty on day one because of international commitments - Ezri Konsa and Ollie Watkins are still away with England at the Euros, as is new signing and Dutchman Ian Maatsen, while John McGinn is on holiday after Scotland's campaign and Belgian Youri Tielemans is also on leave.

Emiliano Martinez is away with Argentina, who play in the Copa America semi-final against Canada on Wednesday, but still there are a number of new and familiar faces for Emery and his team to work with as they get down to business before the commencing of the 2024-25 campaign.

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Villa have been teasing the arrivals of players to Bodymoor this Monday through their social channels, and all three of Emiliano Buendia, Tyrone Mings and Jacob Ramsey have been spotted as being present; the former pair missed practically the entirety of last season after suffering serious knee injuries last summer, while Ramsey missed the end of the campaign with a foot injury.

That trio, alongside new additions Lewis Dobbin, Enzo Barrenechea, Samuel Iling-Junior and Ross Barkley, are the returning Cameron Archer and winter signing Kosta Nedeljkovic. Regulars Pau Torres, Matty Cash, Morgan Rogers and Moussa Diaby have also been spotted readying themselves for a gruelling pre-season period in which Emery will whip his squad into shape.

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