Unai Emery - our manager

[Nev]

There were mumbles, grumbles and sighs around me. I absolutely understand it, we are conditioned to a certain way of watching but at no point did I think we'd lose. It was rather uneventful, straightforward and routine.

Wonderful.

[Monty]

Grumbles and sighs because it was, in fairness, a frustrating, fragmented, somewhat clodfooted game, with lots of misplaced passes and runs to nowhere. But those happen - and what matters is we somehow forced out a fibrous little victory, and that's that.

[stubbsyandy]

Please let’s not get precious already…remember how we ridicule Citeh fan’s expecting brilliance each week. We are building and gaining points..let’s enjoy

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Todays victory gives Unai Emery a win percentage of 52.94%.
At this moment in time he is ahead of every previous manager in our history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aston_Villa_F.C._managers#:~:text=Table%20of%20Aston%20Villa%20F.C.%20managers%2C%20including%20tenure%2C,%20%2010%20%2019%20more%20rows%20

[olaftab]

Brilliant win percentage stat and I would like him to surpass WJ Smith and Sir Ron with 50% over 300 plus games.

[four fornicholl]

The man is a fucking genious !!! UTFV

[olaftab]

I am happy with Unai sticking around till end of the season. He deserves that.

[dave.woodhall]

Brilliant win percentage stat and I would like him to surpass WJ Smith and Sir Ron with 50% over 300 plus games.

Billy Smith wasn't manager either.

[olaftab]

Brilliant win percentage stat and I would like him to surpass WJ Smith and Sir Ron with 50% over 300 plus games.

Billy Smith wasn't manager either.

As you will note I didn't say Manager.

[dave.woodhall]

Brilliant win percentage stat and I would like him to surpass WJ Smith and Sir Ron with 50% over 300 plus games.

Billy Smith wasn't manager either.

As you will note I didn't say Manager.

In which case he has nothing that can be surpassed and shouldn't be included in a conversation about managers.

[PaulWinch again]

We should be very prepared for other clubs to start sniffing around. We need our ambitions to keep pace.

[Smirker]

We should be very prepared for other clubs to start sniffing around. We need our ambitions to keep pace.

I really don't think he will be going anywhere soon. I'm used to our players being pinched but never experienced it with the manager. Because they've largely all been shit in my lifetime. Strange feeling if it happened.

Unai has made me realise how important a good manager is. Obviously it is important but I mean it probably is the most important thing. More than spending and having a great squad. I'd be happy for our budget and whatnot to be more focused on getting top managers than players after this.

Anyway what I hope we have learned from going from Gerrard to Unai is that whoever the next manager is, you pay what it takes to get a top one. We would have to be looking for the likes of Pochettino, Nagelsmann and that bracket of manager only.

[Risso]

He’s very clearly striving to be better and better every week. He went absolutely ballistic when Buendia lofted a hopeful pass that went straight to a Forest player. 

[olaftab]

Brilliant win percentage stat and I would like him to surpass WJ Smith and Sir Ron with 50% over 300 plus games.

Billy Smith wasn't manager either.

As you will note I didn't say Manager.

In which case he has nothing that can be surpassed and shouldn't be included in a conversation about managers.

I think you mean head coach rather than managers as that’s a made up inappropriate title.

[rob_bridge]

He’s very clearly striving to be better and better every week. He went absolutely ballistic when Buendia lofted a hopeful pass that went straight to a Forest player.

Yes I noticed that. No resting on laurels.