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When you have as many senior professional players as Aston Villa do on their books right now, it’s impossible to involve all in a match-day squad in one go. It’ll be tricky, indeed, for Unai Emery, you imagine, to satisfy all of those players, of differing levels of importance and at ranging periods of their careers, but clearly he is the highly qualified man tasked with doing it.

It might be considered the price you pay for success. Villa enjoyed plenty of it last year, but now comes a higher level of opponent in a competition Villa as a club haven’t participated in for more than a generation. Everything is bigger – the expectations of supporters after the watermark of fourth, the size of the squad to cope with the schedule and the requirement to ensure that all of the above are content with their minutes.

That Villa, who have been as busy as any Premier League side this summer transfer window so far – much of it a financial necessity – could leave two new players out of their match-day squad for when they travelled to West Ham United on Saturday for the top flight curtain raiser, spoke volumes of where Emery’s squad is right now – and it’s not even at full strength as it is.

How Emery plans to utilise Juventus recruits Samuel Iling-Junior and Enzo Barrenechea will be interesting. Based on the squad named for the opening day this weekend, it’d suggest that they’re the players who’ll have to continue training hard and hope for a break in the 20-man squad in the coming weeks, especially when the Champions League fixtures are confirmed and appear on the horizon.

Remember, this is a squad which is yet to welcome back Tyrone Mings and Boubacar Kamara – both prior to their injuries crucial starting XI players. The double edged sword of having a squad with such depth, with the campaign as a whole in mind, is that players will, inevitably, have to miss out. Only 16 players in any one game can partake, after all – look at the likes of unused substitutes Ross Barkley and Emiliano Buendia, who didn’t even get on in London.

Of course, Villa will invariably have their own injury issues to contend with as the season progresses, that’s just natural – although clearly you hope that the injury list doesn’t extend in such a way as was the case last year – and those currently on the fringes of the first team squad will undoubtedly be presented with their chance and play their part as and when.

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