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Online Monty

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5835 on: August 28, 2023, 09:11:03 AM »
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?

You have a short memory, Monty.

I haven't broadcast this, but I was often in the company of Paul Lambert in the Paul Lambert years. He was a workaholic and he loved to drink work!*

He'd regularly hold barbecues for the players and staff. I remember him saying: "Ideas a few sausages an a wee bit burger. The bams kin eff aaff eftir that."

*I have never met Paul Lambert.

I was always tickled by the Only An Excuse sketch making fun of him. The idea was he'd written a memoir called 'Lambo: The Quiet Man' which he kept calling 'Obmal, the quite man'.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5836 on: August 28, 2023, 09:13:56 AM »
Lambert's memoir would be about 400 pages of how he played for Dortmund in the European Cup final and about 20 pages for everything else.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5837 on: August 28, 2023, 09:29:54 AM »
He needs some silverware to cement it but potentially our best since Saunders. It’s a long time since I’ve felt able to trust a manager in all of his decision making. He’s had to deal with the loss of key players but has just got on with it rather than try to make excuses. He’s obsessive and single minded and clearly ‘gets us’. A great manager and an impressive human.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5838 on: August 28, 2023, 09:41:23 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5839 on: August 28, 2023, 09:52:30 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

Excellent point

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5840 on: August 28, 2023, 10:25:09 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

Excellent point

It’s given him the opportunity to boost the morale of Bailey, Digne, Carlos to an extent SJM and Olsen.

Suddenly the squad feels bigger. The bloke is a genius.

Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5841 on: August 28, 2023, 10:27:58 AM »
He’s adapted the formation and tactics to suit the players he’s got available.  And not resorted to moaning as a game plan

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5842 on: August 28, 2023, 10:43:08 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

Excellent point

It’s given him the opportunity to boost the morale of Bailey, Digne, Carlos to an extent SJM and Olsen.

Suddenly the squad feels bigger. The bloke is a genius.

Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.

It's why we are the perfect club for him. He can just get on and do his thing under the radar.

We've never had the media circus fawning over us so we stay out of the spotlight, for once I'm beginning to like it.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5843 on: August 28, 2023, 10:45:40 AM »
There are more chess moves than 'grains of sand' on the earth. Unai probably knows most of them.

Our starting eleven are like chess pieces to Unai and he knows all their strengths and weaknesses. He prefers to 'tweak' things on the pitch in 'real time' than resort to substitutions, which are more obvious.

Substitutions to Unai are for injuries only, saving players for the next match and on the rare occasion, when a massive change in formation is required.

Might be why he doesn't need a full bench. Must be a nightmare to manage against.

Unai, the Chess Master.  :) 
« Last Edit: August 28, 2023, 10:48:46 AM by Baldy »

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5844 on: August 28, 2023, 11:17:39 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

Excellent point

It’s given him the opportunity to boost the morale of Bailey, Digne, Carlos to an extent SJM and Olsen.

Suddenly the squad feels bigger. The bloke is a genius.

Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.

It's why we are the perfect club for him. He can just get on and do his thing under the radar.

We've never had the media circus fawning over us so we stay out of the spotlight, for once I'm beginning to like it.

Unlike some managers he doesn't make it all about him. He never complains about officials or decisions against us, He focuses on what we could have done better.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5845 on: August 28, 2023, 11:33:25 AM »
Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.
Yes indeed however sometimes I think he is too honest and transparent in interviews, letting out a lot more about how he won the game, which could provide valuable info for our future opponents.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5846 on: August 28, 2023, 11:58:23 AM »
Not a word from Unai about our awful injury list either with 5 first teamers out.  If it was Klopp there’d be a half hour special about it on the BBC

Excellent point

It’s given him the opportunity to boost the morale of Bailey, Digne, Carlos to an extent SJM and Olsen.

Suddenly the squad feels bigger. The bloke is a genius.

Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.

It's why we are the perfect club for him. He can just get on and do his thing under the radar.

We've never had the media circus fawning over us so we stay out of the spotlight, for once I'm beginning to like it.
Yep, feel the same. Hopefully Emery will just be able to do his thing, how he wants to do it, and it'll be perfect for him, us, and the players. Best manager we've had in my time supporting the club (tho comparing him and SGT is like apples and oranges so quite happy to say they're both the best, just in different ways)

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5847 on: August 28, 2023, 12:33:15 PM »
Elsewhere someone said that Emery doesn’t have the same profile as Klopp/guardiola etc because he’s not box office in interviews etc. that might be a blessing for us because he’s every bit as good, often better, at everything else.
Yes indeed however sometimes I think he is too honest and transparent in interviews, letting out a lot more about how he won the game, which could provide valuable info for our future opponents.

Not really. Probably planned as pretty much it is a different tactic he mentions each time, so harder to plan for every approach to a game he makes.

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5848 on: August 28, 2023, 02:10:31 PM »
By way of an illustration about Emery’s ability to manage "in-game", clearly Kompany had tweaked things at HT yesterday and for the first 10 mins of the 2nd half Burnley caused us a few problems.

But then, either because they ran out of steam, or (more likely) because he'd worked out Kompany's changes and altered a few things positionally and tactically; we regained dominance - Diaby scored our third on the  hour mark and that was pretty well that.

I wonder what his predecessor would have done in the same situation, other than call for more effort?

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Re: Unai Emery - our manager
« Reply #5849 on: August 28, 2023, 02:50:28 PM »
By way of an illustration about Emery’s ability to manage "in-game", clearly Kompany had tweaked things at HT yesterday and for the first 10 mins of the 2nd half Burnley caused us a few problems.

But then, either because they ran out of steam, or (more likely) because he'd worked out Kompany's changes and altered a few things positionally and tactically; we regained dominance - Diaby scored our third on the  hour mark and that was pretty well that.

I wonder what his predecessor would have done in the same situation, other than call for more effort?


Slump back in his chair, fold his arms, lose the game then throw the players under the bus.

 


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