Aston Villa 2019-20 player previews: Can this squad survive in the Premier League?

In exactly one week’s time, Aston Villa will kick off their Premier League season against Tottenham Hotspur. It’s a return to the Premier League after a short hiatus for Dean Smith’s Villans, and we’re now in

So welcome to a 7500 to Holte tradition - our thing - where we preview each player that will play a part in Villa’s return to the Premier League. It’s a lot of reading, but hopefully it will help you catch up with the state of the squad before we kick-off at the New Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next week! If you’re new, it’s the perfect thing to get you up to speed with Villa’s ‘Villans’ before the football actually starts.

If you want, we can catch up with our thoughts over the previous few seasons - to get you totally up-to-date with everything that has happened to Villa over the past few seasons:

Here are the 2016-2017 previews for the Championship season that started with Roberto Di Matteo and ended with Steve Bruce in charge.

Following that, here are the 2017-2018 previews for the season that ended at Wembley, in the worst possible way.

Finally, here are last season’s 2018-2019 previews - in the campaign that ended in promotion following a Wembley victory over Derby County FC after Dean Smith took over from Steve Bruce.

You can follow this year’s in the stream below! Up the Villa, and welcome back to Premier League football.