Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[Toronto Villa]

He always comes across as a decent bloke too whenever interviewed. Smart and humble. His teams play good football. I never considered Emery initially but he’d be excellent given where we are realistically. Sign him long term and get him the help he needs to get us playing some cultured football.

[dave shelley]

I often wonder how these decisions to approach option a, b,c, etc work.  Do they go straight in like a bull at a gate or is any research done?  Do they sound out his agent, talk to people who know him etc to find out if he's amenable to a move/challenge?  If they don't do due dilligence then it's such a waste of time chasing a lost cause when that time could be put to better use in the cause.

[Toronto Villa]

I imagine most is done very secretly and in no specific order because they approach managers/agents and managers/agents approach them. And discussions progress at different speeds/levels of success or failure. I imagine we had a wish list. Poch might have been at the top of that but don’t know that Emery would have been far off along with Amorim.

[Risso]

Poch is going to have to watch himself. The next big thing can quickly become yesterday's man if he gets too picky.

[wince]

well, we certainly look more attractive than the wolves in the manager stakes

[Sexual Ealing]

The noise on Emery really growing now, Spanish journalists getting involved.

https://twitter.com/javimatagil

Ent that Catalan?

Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian are all basically the same, aren't they? Italians just move their hands more?

I haven't spent a lot of time in Catalonia, and my (Castillan) Spanish is a long way from good, but the two are exactly the same as far as I can tell, bar the odd spelling difference. 

[eamonn]

I hope Unai can get us playing sexy football when required.

[KRS]

Can’t have any complaints with Emery, and I’d bracket him in the same managerial ratings as Poch and Tuchel. As exciting as Amorim sounds, he’s still an unknown quantity with little experience. I’d be more than happy with either, but the experience of Emery is probably the sensible stable choice albeit Amorim would probably the more exciting.

[PaulWinch again]

He would be very good if we can get him.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

What’s his buy out fee?

[Sexual Ealing]

Some good advice below if he comes. And if he doesn't.

Luis Miguel Echegaray
@lmechegaray
I am also asking any Villa fan to please not fall into the “good ebening” jokes. As someone who watched his father often be belittled in England because of his accent, it feels ignorant & xenophobic.

Also, if you only speak one language…you really need to sit this one down

https://twitter.com/lmechegaray/status/1584577553100001280

[cdbearsfan]

What’s his buy out fee?

£5 million and all the blood he can drink.

[Matt C]

Percy reporting it now too

[Risso]

Ace, get it done!

He'll almost certainly be shit, not because he's actually shit, but because all Villa managers end up being shit, but it's nice to be linked with that level of boss for a change.

[Villan82]

Since I researched him on Friday night Emery is the man I have wanted us to get. Arguably our biggest appointment since the 90s and certainly our biggest since 2006.

Get him a copy of the BT sport 1982 documentary Super Villans!