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Offline FatSam

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5805 on: August 27, 2023, 08:31:32 PM »
Our net spend is lower than Bournemouth’s.
And higher than that of Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5806 on: August 27, 2023, 08:37:14 PM »
Read this from the Torygraph match report.

This is the difference with someone like Emery.

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A dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.

Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.

“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”

That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.

Offline FatSam

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5807 on: August 27, 2023, 08:43:09 PM »
I think we’ve done the business this window that we originally intended to do. The problem is that we have suffered two potentially season ending injuries to first team players within the first 45 minutes of the season. Ideally we would now replace those players, but the fact is that there aren’t many players left available at this point in the window, and the parameters for FFP don’t suddenly change when players get injured. We still only have the financial bandwidth that we had at start of the window, unless we can create more by selling the likes of Ramsey, Archer and Philogene. The fact that we are now doing that suggests that there might be a push to sign another, but this might also happen in January rather than now.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5808 on: August 27, 2023, 08:52:36 PM »
That Emery statement I’ve got goose bumps.

Offline boutrosboutrosgnarly

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5809 on: August 27, 2023, 08:54:58 PM »
Our net spend is lower than Bournemouth’s.
And higher than that of Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham.
Yeah but we'd be the highest net spenders in League Two if Tony shitshoes were still in charge instead of these fucking NSWE chancers, going toe to toe with the likes of Forest Green under the leadership of Lee Johnson*.
Oh what might have been.
* As long as we hadn't been wound up.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5810 on: August 27, 2023, 08:55:55 PM »
Unai makes me moist.

Online Monty

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5811 on: August 27, 2023, 08:58:21 PM »
Read this from the Torygraph match report.

This is the difference with someone like Emery.

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A dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.

Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.

“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”

That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.

Who was the last manager we had whose main concern was ideas?

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5812 on: August 27, 2023, 08:59:43 PM »
Unai makes me moist.

He puts a spring in my step and makes me dream of good times.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5813 on: August 27, 2023, 08:59:45 PM »
Read this from the Torygraph match report.

This is the difference with someone like Emery.

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A dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.

Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.

“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”

That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.

Who was the last manager we had whose main concern was ideas?

Gerrard; he didn't fucking have any.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5814 on: August 27, 2023, 09:00:34 PM »
Jimmy Hogan.


Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5815 on: August 27, 2023, 09:06:46 PM »
There will be hiccups along the way but i'm really starting to believe that with Unai this is not only the start of something very special, but it's sustainable.

Offline FatSam

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5816 on: August 27, 2023, 09:10:56 PM »

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5817 on: August 27, 2023, 09:11:16 PM »
As do I.  So the owners need to back him big time this week.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5818 on: August 27, 2023, 09:11:55 PM »
SGT to be fair.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5819 on: August 27, 2023, 09:12:32 PM »
There will be hiccups along the way but i'm really starting to believe that with Unai this is not only the start of something very special, but it's sustainable.

Hopefully he sees Villa as his place to build a legacy. The longest he's been at a club is four years with Valencia (08-12). I'd love for us to be where he settles and is home. Like Ferguson at MU, Wenger at Arsenal, Klopp at Liverpool. We deserve a manager who builds a legacy and leaves us having got us to a position of dominance where we will be fine once he is gone like those clubs are/were.

 


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