{"id":4492,"date":"2026-10-30T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/fulham-have-my-full-attention-not-barcelona-clash-says-emery\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:46:14","slug":"fulham-have-my-full-attention-not-barcelona-clash-says-emery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/fulham-have-my-full-attention-not-barcelona-clash-says-emery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulham have my full attention, not Barcelona clash, says Emery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"66.379310344828\">\n<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has said Fulham will have his complete attention on Saturday despite next week\u2019s high-profile Champions League tie away to Barcelona.\n<\/p>\n<p>Villa will be bidding for their third successive win in the Premier League against the Cottagers before taking on Spanish champions Barcelona in Europe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I am thinking, if we are thinking, after the match tomorrow against Fulham, we are making a mistake, and we are wrong, completely wrong,\u201d Emery told reporters on Friday ahead of the match at Villa Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, tomorrow, Fulham, prioritising Premier League clearly, and this is the message,\u201d said the Spaniard, whose side ended leaders Manchester City\u2019s perfect start to the season with a 2-1 win last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo keep our consistency, to keep our demands and work every day. To get this commitment to keep our consistency like we did last year. Each match is a test. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn the Premier League, we lack\u00a0points. Of course, we are progressing, we are getting better. But, if we want to be consistent like last year and\u00a0in the top positions, we must focus on\u00a0tomorrow\u2019s match, prioritising 100 percent and focusing, respecting them (Fulham).\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham club Villa are currently ninth in the Premier League table, three points ahead of London side Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#24504c4141404d504b566454514a474c4a430a474b49\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"6f1b070a0a0b061b001d2f1f1a010c070108410c0002\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has said Fulham will have his complete attention on Saturday despite next week\u2019s high-profile Champions League tie away to Barcelona. Villa will be bidding for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}