I'm ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.
The football was really good at Villa. It was all worthwhile.
There were times while I was injured at Villa when I felt like I was a ghost.
At school, I was always a central midfielder from a young age. Then, when I joined Villa at 16, the pre-season didn't go too well, so they looked at me as a centre-half.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
I prefer advanced midfield, like a No. 10, but you know me: I'll play anywhere for Villa.
The 'Love Island' villa in South Africa is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
It's such a crazy league, the Championship. People used to say that to me, and when you are in the Premier League, you don't really take notice. It's a good league; it's tough, and I like it. But the Premier League is where I want to be, with Villa.
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.
Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.
When Martin O'Neill spent £9m on me to take me to Villa, it was a massive boost.
It is a lifelong dream to even play for Villa, but to get to a European final tops it all off.
