Unai Emery

[Clampy]

Need to start kicking a few up the arse and stop being nice

What gives you the impression that he's too nice?

[kippaxvilla2]

He says good evening in his interviews.

[Toronto Villa]

The wheels haven’t come off. But there needs to be considerable changes to how he sets us up to play. It’s to passive and conservative when we just don’t need to be. We’ve shown in some brilliant home displays; Brighton H, Newcastle H, Man City, Arsenal H that we can be strong and aggressive. That’s why our record has been incredible at Villa Park. So why didn’t we set the way we did last week? We just didn’t need to. And yesterday was like so many of our away games. Passive, submissive, careless, lacking structure or seemingly a plan. We are much better than that. One thing playing Arsenal or Liverpool away where we can understand it to a point. But a very depleted Brentford away. Not acceptable at all.

[tomd2103]

I dont think we need to tell someone as successful as Emery  how to manage players. He's one of the best in the world world at it.

I don't think there is need to panic just yet and don't want to overreact, but he's got a very good reputation to uphold and I just wonder at what point the doubts start to creep into his mind.

[john2710]

If we stop giving away soft goals from the first attack on goal we'll improve significantly.

We got caught yesterday. We got away with the identical situation in the first minute against Newcastle.

[kippaxvilla2]

AI has nailed it.

AI Overview



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Unai Emery's weaknesses include susceptibility to counter-attacks when teams bypass his midfield with speed, the potential for defensive imbalance when switching to two strikers to chase a game, and past difficulties at Arsenal such as lack of managerial support, recruitment failures, and language barriers which contributed to a loss of dressing room cohesion. While his current Aston Villa side is strong tactically, critics suggest the team may still struggle against elite opposition and could face issues with squad depth in demanding European campaigns.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I knew it was the local Brummie lingo getting in-between Jacob and Unai. Unai just can't keep up with whether it's just a roll, bun, bap, cob, batch, barm cake... he was always going to lose the dressing room.

[Sexual Ealing]

I heard he was having problems with the word 'mom'. "But that's what Americans say!" He is believed to have told Damian Vidagany's mum.

[algy]

Feels as if Unai only trusts a certain group and worryingly not the players recently brought in like Malen.
Next Sunday will be telling as we have really struggled against a 3-4-3 with Unai seemingly having no answer. Where has his imagination gone? I remember when we beat the Geordies a couple of seasons ago by basically knocking it long over their press and it worked a treat.

Insanity is doing the same again with the same bad results.

This is my worry. We’re 6 transfer windows in and the first team squad is still mostly Bruce/Smith/Gerrard signings. Not that it’s a bad thing, but to me it suggests that we’re relatively ineffective in the transfer market at the moment. Not so much with the PSR-related transfers which we are arguably the best in the league at currently (buy in, loan out, sell on at a profit - which we do well) but I can’t think of a single player that we’ve bought in with Emery/Monchi/Vidagany who’s gone in to the first team and been an unqualified success. Well, Morgan Rogers - so 1 player.

Unai is the best manager we’ve had in my lifetime, but I am slightly concerned that for all our huffing and puffing we’re not that good at recruitment.

[Clampy]

Tielemans has been very good overall as well.