Unai Emery

[ez]

It's obviously fucking terrible to be the fans this is happening to, but it is kind of psychologically fascinating to witness how a result up in Machester can completely flip the morale of a club. I know there are lots of restrictions and reasons, but the life has just been sucked out of us*.

*BC Villain will be doing a lot of this, to himself.

That's precisely what I said straight after that ridicules decision by the ref in the Man U game and the subsequent result, I said this could finish us, that one decision cost us 100ml, the champions League, PSR and the other garbage, we've been fined and threatened, we can't get the players we want to move on, that game will go down in infamy, has to.

It will have a knock on effect on all the corporate side if things too.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

It's obviously fucking terrible to be the fans this is happening to, but it is kind of psychologically fascinating to witness how a result up in Machester can completely flip the morale of a club. I know there are lots of restrictions and reasons, but the life has just been sucked out of us*.

*BC Villain will be doing a lot of this, to himself.

That's precisely what I said straight after that ridicules decision by the ref in the Man U game and the subsequent result, I said this could finish us, that one decision cost us 100ml, the champions League, PSR and the other garbage, we've been fined and threatened, we can't get the players we want to move on, that game will go down in infamy, has to.

I mean, that's fair enough, it has fucked us, but we still shouldn't be playing anything like how we are. I would like to blame individual players (and I do), but this seems like a systemic issue and I don't know how much Emery has made big changes to how he sets up his teams during his career. We're the only team in all 4 divisions yet to score, that shouldn't be the case regardless of how hamstrung we are financially.

[N'ZMAV]

Unai has to take responsibility, as well as the players, for playing like a bag of wank. Again.

[Smirker]

I said a couple of weeks back I was worried he'd leave at the end of the season.

I fear it may be sooner than that now.

[PaulWinch again]

He needs to do better - our squad management has been dreadful, but even accounting for that we are performing below way below an acceptable level.

It is inexcusable for a team that has had so little turnover to be so incoherent.

[ez]

I said to a mate last week I thought Emery has the job for as long as he wants it. I'm starting to wonder how long that will be.

[Beard82]

As long as he's here - Im not going to panic.  He's a world class manager - and plenty of them have had tough points. 

I think manging all the SCR/FFP bollocks has been a huge drain on the squad and management.  It feels like a bit of a holding pattern so far this season (which obviously hasnt actually worked).

Hopefully this time tomorrow a lot will be settled.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s really not a holding pattern though, not now. It looks like that, but our squad has so little in terms of options now.

[Beard82]

I more meant - try to keep it tight and not lose too much ground.  The Newcastle results wasnt bad.  In the other 2 games we dominated and gave away very soft goals.  In the final third we just need someone to find some form.  We've had long periods where a number of forward players are off form - but the others have carried them.  Now there all in a bad way.

[Sexual Ealing]

A pundit on a pre-season preview podcast said it always goes wrong in his fourth season (but that he normally wins the Europa League anyway).

[villa for life]

It’s really not a holding pattern though, not now. It looks like that, but our squad has so little in terms of options now.

Yes, and why do you think our squad has so few options?

[OzVilla]

A pundit on a pre-season preview podcast said it always goes wrong in his fourth season (but that he normally wins the Europa League anyway).

Jeez I’ll take that. Assuming we avoid relegation of course.

[PaulWinch again]

Unai just needs look across to the opposition dug out. Palace are selling their top stars and kicking on with a very coherent style of play.

[curiousorange]

Unai just needs look across to the opposition dug out. Palace are selling their top stars and kicking on with a very coherent style of play.

This is what gets me. Even allowing for Palace being our bogey team, that side is full of unheralded players from God knows where. Glasner's a decent coach but no Emery, and tbh Unai's kryptonite is coming up against coaches who aren't anywhere near his level. I find it utterly baffling.

[Beard82]

Unai just needs look across to the opposition dug out. Palace are selling their top stars and kicking on with a very coherent style of play.

It was just a low block with players who score against us for fun.  They had 3 chances and 3 goals.  It would have been described as a smash and grab if we ever looked like scoring