Unai Emery

[dave shelley]

Unai, we have always been a family since 1874 but all good families need a good Patriarch or Matriarch to ensure survival and progress, you sir are the best we have had for a long time.  Long may you succeed at our great club.*

* Not forgetting Naz and Wes.

[Beard82]

Beautiful, just beautiful. This guy gets what it means to manage football clubs.

Brucie would've been in Dovehouse Lane Fish Bar by 10:30 scooping up the unsold battered sausages at discount

Great - I love the passion he has for his job

[gpbarr]

Could he be the one?

Whenever we have had a new manager, it’s usually been a sense of relief (the last guy failed) and hope (even if some appointments have been underwhelming).

It feels different this time. The more I read about him, hear from him, and listen to the respect he garners amongst his peers and the game in general, the more convinced I am that he is.

Moreno is the first of a few I think will arrive that will bring pace and energy - in too many games we are too slow and we lack width and pace in the squad. Once that’s corrected, and we address the CB question, we can under Emery compete for European places.

Less hope now, more belief.

[LeeB]

I might be getting ahead of myself a bit, but I sense that he sees this job as the defining role for him in his career. He's already managed a star studded galactico team, he had the job with Arsenal where he was hamstrung and hardly judged, he's then come back and proven himself beyond doubt with Villareal against the odds.
The job now is to restore a great club in the toughest league, I feel he absolutely believes it can be done with backing and he knows exactly what he's going to do to achieve it.

[Mellin]

Beautiful, just beautiful. This guy gets what it means to manage football clubs.

Brucie would've been in Dovehouse Lane Fish Bar by 10:30 scooping up the unsold battered sausages at discount

Ahh. I saw him outside those shops a few years back. No chip wrapper in hand, but probably on the way in! Fair play to him, great chippy. Lovely fish.

[Drummond]

I might be getting ahead of myself a bit, but I sense that he sees this job as the defining role for him in his career. He's already managed a star studded galactico team, he had the job with Arsenal where he was hamstrung and hardly judged, he's then come back and proven himself beyond doubt with Villareal against the odds.
The job now is to restore a great club in the toughest league, I feel he absolutely believes it can be done with backing and he knows exactly what he's going to do to achieve it.

I hope you're right. There will be tough spells but sticking together is key.

I'm pleased with most aspects of what he's done so far, the league form had to be a priority when he arrived (imagine where we'd now be of we hadn't changed) and he's got more points in his last 6 games than any other club.

More wins in his first 6 than our last bloke got in his last 17.

[eamonn]

No fish and chips for Unai until he delivers glory for the Villa.

[Steve67]

I am positive he will be backed by the owners.  I have faith in him that he sees our weak points and will sort them out.  Feet firmly on the floor, but this guy seems the real deal.  At last!

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

That’s class. The next few years could be the best we’ve had for a long time.

[ROBBO]

With all the terrible managers and false dawns over the recent decades, any manager that can turn us into a consistantly top side wlii earn legend status.

[nigel]

Beautiful, just beautiful. This guy gets what it means to manage football clubs.

That’s the sort of thing Dean Smith would say.

As you say, this guy gets it

[VILLA MOLE]

Yes he is great , also with the traffic it makes sense to stay there until then 😉

[OCD]

He's getting results that the team might not deserve. That buys him time while he changes the squad. The players all look like they've bought into what he's doing. There's no bomb squad and he shows everyone respect and gets it back in return. The quality of the squad will improve and combined with his tactical knowledge, that's really going to set us up. I can see how Arsenal went on that unbeaten run of 22 games or whatever it was.

[Nev]

Yes he is great , also with the traffic it makes sense to stay there until then 😉

You can see him thinking "has that bottleneck by the Ratpan eased yet?"

[Rigadon]

I might be getting ahead of myself a bit, but I sense that he sees this job as the defining role for him in his career. He's already managed a star studded galactico team, he had the job with Arsenal where he was hamstrung and hardly judged, he's then come back and proven himself beyond doubt with Villareal against the odds.
The job now is to restore a great club in the toughest league, I feel he absolutely believes it can be done with backing and he knows exactly what he's going to do to achieve it.

That's exactly my vibe too.  He is going to be the one who (finally) delivers some glory after all this time.