Unai Emery

[PeterWithesShin]

Leicester (finished 8th) is the best side we beat under Poundland Sherwood. We also beat Brighton twice (9th) and Palace (12th). And 3 of those wins were in his first 4 games. The next 34 and the only non shit side we beat were Brighton the second time. Everyone else was utter shite and were either relegated or nearly relegated.

[Nev]

Last March in the corresponding fixture we lost and never really gave Woolwich a game. The result might've been the same but the performance was totally different yesterday.

[RamboandBruno]

He’s got the same record as Gerrard after ten games but Gerrard had easier games at least the first few. 

Gerrard had Brighton, Palace, Man City, Leicester, Liverpool, Norwich, Chelsea, Brentford, Man U and Everton. Emery has had Man U, Brighton, Liverpool, Spurs, Wolves, Leeds, Southampton, Leicester, Man City and Arsenal. 5 of the same teams. Gerrard had Chelsea rather than Spurs, and Everton and Norwich rather than Southampton and Leeds, so all in all pretty well identical really. After a decent start the players let Gerrard down, and they're now doing the same for Emery.

Give it a rest mate

Why, pretty decent observation based on facts.

He needs time or do you want him sacked already? Might take a couple of years but I'm convinced hes the right man

Maybe you need to read the post, he is blaming the players not the manager.

The problem with the post is it lets Gerrard off the hook, and puts him and Emery in the same bracket, whether its the intention to or not. We do have some players that wont be able to step up. We also have others like Luiz who has looked excellent since Emery took over, including yesterday. Nobody, not one player improved after a year with Gerard, given the vastly different track record of Emery, its hard to imagine a good number of the current crop wont improve, and those who really cant will be gone.

[algy]

Interesting post-match quotes from him on Pravda, positively Pravda-unfriendly:

“I’m really frustrated,” Emery told VillaTV post-match.

“It’s embarrassing to do the same in two matches, each goal (4-2), at home here with our supporters.

“I don’t know exactly, but we are not playing, being competitive at home.

“And we are not playing, really, in the idea I want in the team. I don’t know exactly why.

“I think we are playing with intensity, we are playing with passion, running, scoring goals quickly. But we are not playing football controlling the ball, the game, controlling the positioning, of the time in the 90 minutes.

“We are scoring one goal quickly and we are waiting in the 90 minutes, pass as soon as possible and don’t play the match in the way we were preparing – being consistent and being confident in the 90 minutes in our ideal style.

“And, really, I’m disappointed because I think the reaction will be quick and being very, very different like we have shown in the last two matches against Leicester and today.”

Sounds like he's not a happy chicken.

I get a very different feel under Emery than there was under Gerrard & Smith. Can see it being a busy summer, both ins & outs, at least without summer fairly major improvements in our existing players' approach.

[dorsetvillian]

Even comparing Gerrard to Emery is insane. One is a rookie manager the other a proven elite coach at some of the top teams in Europe. Villa are very lucky to have Emery and like our owners we need to give him time, resources and the respect he deserves.

[PaulWinch again]

Resources being the key point - we can’t be half arsed in the transfer market.

[ChicagoLion]

Resources being the key point - we can’t be half arsed in the transfer market.

It’s going to take an awful long time with stuff like buying Moreno who is maybe a slight improvement on Digne who we bought as a slight improvement on Targett.
Glacial.

[CT]

Moreno is a huge improvement on Digne IMO.

[Beard82]

What I am impressed with his he knows what he wants and where things went wrong.

It will take time and he will make mistakes but I think he is the best chance we have of making progress .

The more backing the club can give him the better - but we will see improvements.

[RamboandBruno]

Resources being the key point - we can’t be half arsed in the transfer market.

It’s going to take an awful long time with stuff like buying Moreno who is maybe a slight improvement on Digne who we bought as a slight improvement on Targett.
Glacial.

Goal aside which was a good finish from a poor header from Mings, Saka was really quiet yesterday, a lot of this was down to Moreno, who was i thought excellent for the most part yesterday

[Villafirst]

The defence is shipping goals at an alarming rate. I wonder if UE will consider 3 centre backs when Diego Carlos is ready to return, hopefully in a couple of weeks? We certainly need more physicality in the team. Another thing, Villa afforded their wide players far too much time and space yesterday, particularly in the second-half.

[WarszaVillan]

It is refreshing listening to Emery because you actually get a sense of what he's trying to do, rather than just platitudes about believing in the players and working hard in training, etc. He says he wants a team that dominates possession and dictates the game. Arsenal controlled the game yesterday and eventually wore us down and won the game. Emery is not resorting to setting us up as a counter-attacking team or playing direct against the best sides. He wants us to be playing controlled, possession football from the back in every game. This is very ambitious - I can't remember a Villa team doing this in the top league for decades. During our last relatively successful period under MON we were at our best as a counter-attacking team. It will take some time for Emery's strategy to work and if we as fans buy into it we will have to be patient. There's no point just getting players in for the sake of it as we have done so often in the past, we need people in that can play as Emery wants. Eight players who started yesterday's game were signed by Smith and it shows. Some of those now have to become either squad players or leave. Emery looks like the manager who knows exactly what he wants and will be ruthless in getting rid of those who do not fit his plan - I hope so as that's the type of manager we need.

[Clampy]

What Warsza said. Its frustrating but I think we need to have a little patience with it.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

It took the great Ron Saunders 3 team rebuilds before we won the league and then the European Cup. Unai hasn’t even attempted 1 team rebuild yet!
Of course it’s going to take time and patience, but Unai is an elite proven manager and he will succeed in his task. Villa fans who know their football recognise this.

[Flin5tone]

We need to stick with Unai Emery , he's an elite manager and I doubt we would ever get any better for a team that is consistently in the lower end of the table .

The problem is the club and talking up European chances, GA+ tickets, new stands etc but poor investment on the pitch.
We should pause the rebuild and invest in the squad because there's no way we're filling 50,000 seats if it stays the same