There have been so many managerial changes this season, and quite a few who've done a good job.Howe has done really well, O'Neill at Bournemouth and Cooper at Forest have done well to stay in the division, deZerbi has continued Potter's good work so it's hard to give him as much credit. Lopetegui did really well to get them safe after finding them bottom at Xmas. Hats off to Lampard too, what an incredibly satisfying run he's been on. But with making a silk purse from a sow's ear, Emery is the man.
Quote from: Drummond on May 30, 2023, 11:24:13 AMThere have been so many managerial changes this season, and quite a few who've done a good job.Howe has done really well, O'Neill at Bournemouth and Cooper at Forest have done well to stay in the division, deZerbi has continued Potter's good work so it's hard to give him as much credit. Lopetegui did really well to get them safe after finding them bottom at Xmas. Hats off to Lampard too, what an incredibly satisfying run he's been on. But with making a silk purse from a sow's ear, Emery is the man.The Wolves manager did alright but they were in a false position in the first place, spent a ton of cash in the window, copped for a couple of right pastings at the end of the season and played like a Tony Puils team to beat us.There's also more than a whiff of Billy McNeill 'filling time between jobs' about him too.
Quote from: Drummond on May 30, 2023, 11:24:13 AMThere have been so many managerial changes this season, and quite a few who've done a good job.Howe has done really well, O'Neill at Bournemouth and Cooper at Forest have done well to stay in the division, deZerbi has continued Potter's good work so it's hard to give him as much credit. Lopetegui did really well to get them safe after finding them bottom at Xmas. Hats off to Lampard too, what an incredibly satisfying run he's been on. But with making a silk purse from a sow's ear, Emery is the man.Spot on. I hope now that this is the first transfer window where we really push the boat and make some good decisions. I think most of our windows since coming back have been a bit disappointing for one reason or another. I hope that Emery's approach to transfers is as meticulous and successful as his coaching. If it is, next season could be really quite special indeed.
Amen. We're so starved of success, the atmosphere on Saturday was electric, if you can think what starting to win stuff could do for our club....
Quote from: Drummond on May 30, 2023, 11:36:07 AMAmen. We're so starved of success, the atmosphere on Saturday was electric, if you can think what starting to win stuff could do for our club....Put ti this way, it will be a very long time until we're leaving Wembley before our captain lifts the FA Cup.
Quote from: Brazilian Villain on May 30, 2023, 11:39:58 AMQuote from: Drummond on May 30, 2023, 11:36:07 AMAmen. We're so starved of success, the atmosphere on Saturday was electric, if you can think what starting to win stuff could do for our club....Put ti this way, it will be a very long time until we're leaving Wembley before our captain lifts the FA Cup.Don't laugh, but for the first time probably this century I will go into next season thinking "We could win the FA Cup this year"It's this shift in thinking I'm struggling to still accept as reality rather than fastasy.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on May 30, 2023, 11:08:16 AMSacrilegious but those photos did make me think of:Partridge doesn't wear Stoney whereas Unai got the badge in twice.
Sacrilegious but those photos did make me think of:
QuoteA day in Birmingham with Unai Emery, the 'boss' who takes the 'villains' to Europe: "I've never had a project like this"EL MUNDO visits the coach who, in six months, has brought Aston Villa to Europe after 13 years.The center of Birmingham is furrowed by canals from where the manufactures leaving the factories of the 'city of a thousand trades' were distributed in the 18th century, the second most populous capital in England, where Unai Emery arrived six months ago to wake up a sleeping giant. From his glass-enclosed penthouse he can see them and, on the few walks that the competition allows him to take, he can still go unnoticed, even without the cap with which he usually protects himself from glances and the photos to which he gladly agrees, but which do bring out his point of shyness. Also contains some pictures of the great man surveying his kingdom - taken at 5am as he'd just exited the Tap and Spile.https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/2023/05/29/6461192521efa045148b458a.html
A day in Birmingham with Unai Emery, the 'boss' who takes the 'villains' to Europe: "I've never had a project like this"EL MUNDO visits the coach who, in six months, has brought Aston Villa to Europe after 13 years.The center of Birmingham is furrowed by canals from where the manufactures leaving the factories of the 'city of a thousand trades' were distributed in the 18th century, the second most populous capital in England, where Unai Emery arrived six months ago to wake up a sleeping giant. From his glass-enclosed penthouse he can see them and, on the few walks that the competition allows him to take, he can still go unnoticed, even without the cap with which he usually protects himself from glances and the photos to which he gladly agrees, but which do bring out his point of shyness.
It's funny as like you say, the transfer windows have felt a bit disappointing but when you now look at the team through a properly coached lens we've managed to put a pretty decent side together since coming up.
Quote from: Risso on May 30, 2023, 11:32:05 AMQuote from: Drummond on May 30, 2023, 11:24:13 AMThere have been so many managerial changes this season, and quite a few who've done a good job.Howe has done really well, O'Neill at Bournemouth and Cooper at Forest have done well to stay in the division, deZerbi has continued Potter's good work so it's hard to give him as much credit. Lopetegui did really well to get them safe after finding them bottom at Xmas. Hats off to Lampard too, what an incredibly satisfying run he's been on. But with making a silk purse from a sow's ear, Emery is the man.Spot on. I hope now that this is the first transfer window where we really push the boat and make some good decisions. I think most of our windows since coming back have been a bit disappointing for one reason or another. I hope that Emery's approach to transfers is as meticulous and successful as his coaching. If it is, next season could be really quite special indeed.It's funny as like you say, the transfer windows have felt a bit disappointing but when you now look at the team through a properly coached lens we've managed to put a pretty decent side together since coming up.