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Unai Emery has been told one of his current Aston Villa players is ‘irreplaceable’ right now, and it’s not striker Ollie Watkins. Aston Villa set out to achieve European football last term and smashed that goal by finishing in the Champions League places. Villa’s fourth-place finish was a huge success story and Unai Emery is now looking to upgrade several positions in his squad, with defence looking like a particular priority. The Spaniard has been hard at work this summer and is on the verge of offloading Douglas Luiz to Juventus, with Enzo Barrenchea and Samuel Iling-Junior arriving in the o…