Unai Emery

[brontebilly]

I guess we have a multi cultural squad but Emery's English isn't great in comparison to the likes of Guardiola, Arteta or Benitez. An important part of the gig is to be able to communicate clearly with the media (obv staff and players), something the likes of Paul Lambert struggled badly with despite it being allegedly his first language! Not much Emery can do about it but it's another reason why I'd have liked to have seen him keep on the likes of Cutler and Danks on the coaching staff.

Anyway, it's what happens on the pitch that's the most important. Looking forward to seeing what tactical tweaks he will have in place for Sunday.

[Toronto Villa]

Lambert was a mumbling buffoon. Emery will be fine. Somehow Bielsa who never even gave interviews in English after 3 years of being in this country got his football message across to his players.

[jwarry]

I guess we have a multi cultural squad but Emery's English isn't great in comparison to the likes of Guardiola, Arteta or Benitez. An important part of the gig is to be able to communicate clearly with the media (obv staff and players), something the likes of Paul Lambert struggled badly with despite it being allegedly his first language! Not much Emery can do about it but it's another reason why I'd have liked to have seen him keep on the likes of Cutler and Danks on the coaching staff.

Anyway, it's what happens on the pitch that's the most important. Looking forward to seeing what tactical tweaks he will have in place for Sunday.

Frankly the media can fuck off

[Rigadon]

I guess we have a multi cultural squad but Emery's English isn't great in comparison to the likes of Guardiola, Arteta or Benitez. An important part of the gig is to be able to communicate clearly with the media (obv staff and players), something the likes of Paul Lambert struggled badly with despite it being allegedly his first language! Not much Emery can do about it but it's another reason why I'd have liked to have seen him keep on the likes of Cutler and Danks on the coaching staff.

Anyway, it's what happens on the pitch that's the most important. Looking forward to seeing what tactical tweaks he will have in place for Sunday.

Frankly the media can fuck off

100% agree.  Especially some parts of it (e.g. 'talksport') that will try and take the piss regardless and then back the piss taking up with 'serious concerns' that the poor players can't "understandi the lingo".  From his first interview, I can't see any difference in how he talks and Guardiola, who never gets the same treatment. 

Its all about success on the pitch. Achieve that - and I'm convinced he will - and all the puerile piss taking quietens down. 

[olaftab]

Being able to communicate with media is not at all important. What’s important is knowing your team, having a strategy and sorting team tactically.

[Drummond]

Being able to communicate with media is not at all important. What’s important is knowing your team, having a strategy and sorting team tactically.

It's extremely important these days. If the media are against you, it can turn all too quickly and cloud the supporters' and other people's perception of you.

[CT Villan]

...and the Aston Villa emotional roller-coaster takes a sudden turn and begins to slowly climb upwards once again.

[olaftab]

Being able to communicate with media is not at all important. What’s important is knowing your team, having a strategy and sorting team tactically.

It's extremely important these days. If the media are against you, it can turn all too quickly and cloud the supporters' and other people's perception of you.

I think the recent evidence is against that. We have parted company with probably the best communicator in the premier league this season. A polished flawless performer in front of the Media but….

[Risso]

Being able to communicate with media is not at all important. What’s important is knowing your team, having a strategy and sorting team tactically.

It's extremely important these days. If the media are against you, it can turn all too quickly and cloud the supporters' and other people's perception of you.

I think the recent evidence is against that. We have parted company with probably the best communicator in the premier league this season. A polished flawless performer in front of the Media but….

It's a bit of both. If he wins five games in a row nobody will care that his pronunication in English is a bit below par. Likewise as you say you can be the best communicator in the world and it won't save you if the results aren't up to scratch. Getting the supporters and the media onside does help though, and can buy you time. He's clearly a nice guy, and hopefully his coaching will shine through, so he'll be fine. I'm sure his English will improve in no time.

[villadelph]

I guess we have a multi cultural squad but Emery's English isn't great in comparison to the likes of Guardiola, Arteta or Benitez. An important part of the gig is to be able to communicate clearly with the media (obv staff and players), something the likes of Paul Lambert struggled badly with despite it being allegedly his first language! Not much Emery can do about it but it's another reason why I'd have liked to have seen him keep on the likes of Cutler and Danks on the coaching staff.

Anyway, it's what happens on the pitch that's the most important. Looking forward to seeing what tactical tweaks he will have in place for Sunday.

I would like to think that there is a finite vocabulary when coaching football and Emery has been doing it long enough (in three different domestic leagues) to know how to get his message across. This may be the first time where I've felt comfortable enough handing the manager the keys to truly evaluate the players and make executive decisions regarding their capacity to play and contribute at this level.

I could not care less about the media's perception or ability to communication with Unai. It should be no concern of ours - let's play good football and get up the table at all costs.

[eamonn]

Being able to communicate with media is not at all important. What’s important is knowing your team, having a strategy and sorting team tactically.

It's extremely important these days. If the media are against you, it can turn all too quickly and cloud the supporters' and other people's perception of you.

Which is what happened to Emery at the Emirates, right?

[German James]

It astonishes me how some fans all but invent some negative slant and run with it!

[Toronto Villa]

As a fan base they were spoiled with success under Wenger. We’d have happily accepted what they considered failure towards the end of Wenger’s time. The next bloke was always going to have it tough but results wise he was successful. But it wasn’t enough and players and fans took the piss out of his accent and methods of management. Yet if you look what Arteta has inherited and the players introduced under Emery, Arsenal fans should be grateful. As it relates to us, after the years of utter pig shit we’ve had to endure, a could of years of top 7/8 and a cup run or win would be just magnificent.

[eamonn]

It certainly would. Plus Arsenal TV was invented for fancy fellas from North London to rage against the (quite well-oiled) machine.

[paul_e]

It astonishes me how some fans all but invent some negative slant and run with it!

I agree, I doesn't matter how he communicates with the press (for now at least), loads of them want him to fail so they can blame the club/players and 'save' the reputation of their favourite scouser, he'll only stop that by making us a much better team than we have been for the last year. If he gets that right then he can write 'fuck the gooners' on the walls in his own shit for all I care.

Communication matters later, when the club has an identifiable style of play and we're seeing a team that knows what is expected of it. Then we can worry about how we're seen in the press and how that affects the view of fans. If he fails in the next year it'll be because we're still in a relegation battle at the end of the season, not because he pronuonces v as b in a few words.