Emi Buendia

[Dogtanian]

He’s a competitor.

[Caiphus]

I've always liked that he's a terrier out of possession as well. He might be short and light, but he's not afraid to put his body on the line like so many technically gifted players are. It doesn't always pay off and sometimes he's little more than a speed bump but he throws himself in the way.

[Dogtanian]

Excerpts from an interview with little Emi:

https://sportwitness.co.uk/aston-villa-star-details-unai-emery-conversation-key-to-turnaround-this-season-explained/

My favourite bit at the end:

"I remember the call from Aston Villa with great emotion because the project they presented to me, fortunately, gradually became a reality over the years. The club’s ambition was to achieve the kind of things we’re experiencing now. It was a huge step in my career. I’m personally very proud of it, and today I can enjoy all these wonderful things."

[VILLA MOLE]

He’s a competitor.

He looks so sharp at the moment he cant want the season to end

[Smithy]

Excerpts from an interview with little Emi:

https://sportwitness.co.uk/aston-villa-star-details-unai-emery-conversation-key-to-turnaround-this-season-explained/

My favourite bit at the end:

"I remember the call from Aston Villa with great emotion because the project they presented to me, fortunately, gradually became a reality over the years. The club’s ambition was to achieve the kind of things we’re experiencing now. It was a huge step in my career. I’m personally very proud of it, and today I can enjoy all these wonderful things."

The summer he joined, I remember Purslow talking about the 'five year plan'.  And here were are, five years later, with three years of European football behind us and a European trophy.  Not that I'm giving Purslow the credit here, but if you joined this club having sold the same vision us fans were given, then I think you'd have to feel the club has delivered so far.

I'd love to know what the owners would like to see in another five years...

I'd like to think that by the end of next season (at the latest), we'll be in a legitimate title race.  That would be a fitting way to conclude our owner's first decade as stewards of the club, and how far we've come since the day they took over a mid-table Championship side.

[Dogtanian]

I was thinking the other day, which is always an issue, and even I suspect I might not be all there, but...

If we had beaten Man U on the last day, and been in the Champions League... Is there an argument to say that we could have strengthened, rather than weakened, and while we probably wouldn't have won a cup, we may have had the legs to keep our league fight up beyond the halfway point?

Or do we think we wouldn't have solved the Kamara issue and fallen away with his injury regardless?

[VILLA MOLE]

I was thinking the other day, which is always an issue, and even I suspect I might not be all there, but...

If we had beaten Man U on the last day, and been in the Champions League... Is there an argument to say that we could have strengthened, rather than weakened, and while we probably wouldn't have won a cup, we may have had the legs to keep our league fight up beyond the halfway point?

Or do we think we wouldn't have solved the Kamara issue and fallen away with his injury regardless?

Could we have kept Ramsey ?  but then Buendia might not have had his fruition ,  I try not to think too

[Dogtanian]

Yeah, it's a hard one. I keep thinking 21 points... those 5 games at the start of the season, average 2 points there and that's a third of it already.

It was a low points total season, there was the opportunity there for someone.

[eamonn]

There will be again. The top three can be totes overthrown.p

[Keeno]

Yeah, it's a hard one. I keep thinking 21 points... those 5 games at the start of the season, average 2 points there and that's a third of it already.

It was a low points total season, there was the opportunity there for someone.

I can't see it being much higher next season either, especially with a lot of the top sides in transition or with new managers. Us and Arsenal probably have the two most settled managerial/squad set ups.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Arsenal must fancy themselves to dominate over the next 2/3 years. The fucks. If we can somehow keep Kamara fit and a couple of top additions, we could definitely scare them.

[LeeB]

Crack their set piece reliance or the rules get tightened up and they've got a problem, and then if things start slipping they're such a bunch of bedwetters from top to bottom they'll devour themselves.

Fuck Arsenal, our time is coming.

[ChicagoLion]

Crack their set piece reliance or the rules get tightened up and they've got a problem, and then if things start slipping they're such a bunch of bedwetters from top to bottom they'll devour themselves.

Fuck Arsenal, our time is coming.

Agree the pushing and shoving rules have played massively into their favour.

[Dogtanian]

You little beauty, Emi!

His Istanbul goal voted Goal of the Tournament:

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2026/may/28/news-uel-Buendias-stunner-voted-Europa-League-Goal-of-the-Tournament/

[Somniloquism]

Tielemans second.