Unai Emery

[pauliewalnuts]

Emery is not beyond reproach but he is a top class coach, one of the best and unlike many, many seasons before he came we are in 2 cups and not exactly stinking the place out in the league every week.
He knows what he’s doing and just because things go wrong it doesn’t mean he won’t put them right. I know most of us think this but when I read “it’s not good enough” I’m old enough to know what the meaning is behind it.

Yeah, but we are stinking the place out in the league most weeks.

And it's not good enough is just an assessment of where we are. What else are we meant to say that can't have some sinister sub-context applied to it?

[DC1874]

Do we have a defensive coach? Better to sack McPhee off for one if we don't

[PaulWinch again]

Thing is if it were a bad day at the office I could handle it, but whilst it was an extreme example it’s just a repetition of what we do week in and week out in the league. We can often salvage it at home, but the underlying flaws are there. There are some fundamental tactical things that need fixing that aren’t being.

[Paul.S]

We are 10th, nowhere near as good as we have been under Emery but we aren’t stinking the place out every week. We put in huge performances and powers of recovery against Liverpool and Chelsea but there comes a point when you need to change things because players are knackered. We can’t in central midfield.

[Demitri_C]

Do we have a defensive coach? Better to sack McPhee off for one if we don't

It feels like we have stevie wonder as defence coach as our defensive play is so bad. We have seen virtually  no improvement  in the league.  In fact we just seem to get worse as the season progresses.

[PeterWithe]

Despite him scoring Rogers looks well in need of a rest, given UE's desire for 'control' a knackered Rogers doesn't do much to achieve that. Seems strange that he's not been given a rest to get back to his best when we have bought players in who can cover him

[DC1874]

Bin both our keepers and get Kelleher from Liverpool as #1?

[brontebilly]

Bin both our keepers and get Kelleher from Liverpool as #1?

Playing behind our defence Kelleher would be mashed into the nets every week. Keep faith in Martinez.

[Zouch Villa]

Do we have a defensive coach? Better to sack McPhee off for one if we don't

It feels like we have stevie wonder as defence coach as our defensive play is so bad. We have seen virtually  no improvement  in the league.  In fact we just seem to get worse as the season progresses.

We could do with a defence in the first place….

[edgysatsuma89]

We are 10th, nowhere near as good as we have been under Emery but we aren’t stinking the place out every week. We put in huge performances and powers of recovery against Liverpool and Chelsea but there comes a point when you need to change things because players are knackered. We can’t in central midfield.

We could have played Bogarde there, which is his main position, and what I thought was going to happen when I saw the line-up. We didn't need to go 3 at the back and ultimately end up with Bailey as a wing-back. That's all Emery shooting himself in the foot.

[Flamingo Lane]

Bin both our keepers and get Kelleher from Liverpool as #1?

I've been thinking that for a while, and this summer would be the time to do it.

[adrenachrome]

He has performed a minor miracle to get us we are.
There has always been a nagging doubt in my mind, though, that a rigid game plan and way of playing will get found out sooner or later.

Man Citeh played robot football to great effect, but now it is not so effective.

If you watch the NFL, as I do, all the coaches have laminated game plans and head microphones. Here, substitutes are often shown an IPad Tablet when coming on, though they never seem to be paying much attention.
The great teams of the past would sort things out on the pitch between themselves and Tony Morley would flick V's at Ron Saunders after scoring.
Flexibility and adaptability on the pitch required.

[kippaxvilla2]

He really isn’t a brilliant manager at all and it’s going to fall apart very soon.

This feels like one of those weird phrases a Villa fan would use, that is so totally out of character that it secretly signals they were in trouble. 

Are you being held against your will Colin69? Do we need to send help?

Ask Angela.

[kippaxvilla2]

I can almost guarantee we will throw one into the net against Cardiff. It won’t be straightforward and we will be talking about plucky losers. 

[Rory]

Emery is not beyond reproach but he is a top class coach, one of the best and unlike many, many seasons before he came we are in 2 cups and not exactly stinking the place out in the league every week.
He knows what he’s doing and just because things go wrong it doesn’t mean he won’t put them right. I know most of us think this but when I read “it’s not good enough” I’m old enough to know what the meaning is behind it.

Yeah, but we are stinking the place out in the league most weeks.

And it's not good enough is just an assessment of where we are. What else are we meant to say that can't have some sinister sub-context applied to it?

We've lost two games in our last ten and gathered 14 points.

Granted, we're not exactly galloping to a CL place, but hardly 'stinking the place out'. For a club that did 'stink the place out' less than ten years ago, we should just be a little more realistic with our wording.