Unai Emery

[Rico]

If we don't qualify for the Champions League would anyone be totally surprise if we start next season with a new manager? I wouldn't! Top end football is about winning trophies and I'm pretty sure the owners will be as pissed off by yesterday's result as us fans. I just can't get my head around yesterday's performance. So insipid. When we play with purpose we're as good as anyone. When we play so slowly we look awful. It was Crystal Fucking Palace for fucks sake not PSG or Barcelona.

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Fucking hell, go back to bed.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

That was as poor a post match interview (avtv) as I've seen from Unai.
That's 2 semi-finals we've fucked up now and it isn't good enough. We've gone out of both without so much as a whimper. If we can't take the semi-final of a domestic cup competition seriously, then what's the point? Unai didn't take yesterday seriously because of his team selection, tactics, lack of in-game management and substitutions.
But, but, but Europe! Fuck european competitions when it's at the expense of actual silverware!

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Whats this shite about not taking it seriously? Is anybody seriously not able to work out why 500 game Aston Villa with 9 men and half an asthmatic Leon Bailey went out last season as we did?

What was in the fucking ale yesterday and why are you making today worse than it needs to be.

[DB]

If we don't qualify for the Champions League would anyone be totally surprise if we start next season with a new manager? I wouldn't! Top end football is about winning trophies and I'm pretty sure the owners will be as pissed off by yesterday's result as us fans. I just can't get my head around yesterday's performance. So insipid. When we play with purpose we're as good as anyone. When we play so slowly we look awful. It was Crystal Fucking Palace for fucks sake not PSG or Barcelona.

Yes, let's get big Ange in, he looks like he'll be available  this summer.

[Rico]

I'm not saying that I think he should be sacked, I'm saying that it would not surprise me if the owners thought differently. As for Ange, no thanks!

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It would be a huge surprise and huge fucking mistake.

[PeterWithe]

If we don't qualify for the Champions League would anyone be totally surprise if we start next season with a new manager? 

I'd be surprised, in fact I'd be as surprised as I've ever been. And not in a good way.

[Steve67]

Emery has improved us no end.  The owners need to continue to find ways to back him as, despite the odd fuck up, such as yesterday, we are good to watch and have some great players.  Keep Emery, back him. 

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Whats this shite about not taking it seriously? Is anybody seriously not able to work out why 500 game Aston Villa with 9 men and half an asthmatic Leon Bailey went out last season as we did?

What was in the fucking ale yesterday and why are you making today worse than it needs to be.

It reads like you're still on the ale mate!
Take some time out.

[Nev]

We played as we have in the majority of domestic cup games under Emery. It might be a strong side but we never look at it.

These competitions are just not a priority.

[RamboandBruno]

We played as we have in the majority of domestic cup games under Emery. It might be a strong side but we never look at it.

These competitions are just not a priority.

I know yesterday was bad, really bad, I’m low today, but you honestly can’t tell me he went to Wembley with everything that goes with it, in a semi final and didn’t take it seriously.

[Nev]

We played as we have in the majority of domestic cup games under Emery. It might be a strong side but we never look at it.

These competitions are just not a priority.

I know yesterday was bad, really bad, I’m low today, but you honestly can’t tell me he went to Wembley with everything that goes with it, in a semi final and didn’t take it seriously.

I think while he plays a strong side, no doubt emphasises how important it is and that we need to win, there is something in his demeanor that carries through to the players and gives us relatively limp and uninspired performances.

I might be completely wrong but it's the only rationale I can come up with.

[AV82EC]

We played as we have in the majority of domestic cup games under Emery. It might be a strong side but we never look at it.

These competitions are just not a priority.

I know yesterday was bad, really bad, I’m low today, but you honestly can’t tell me he went to Wembley with everything that goes with it, in a semi final and didn’t take it seriously.

I think while he plays a strong side, no doubt emphasises how important it is and that we need to win, there is something in his demeanor that carries through to the players and gives us relatively limp and uninspired performances.

I might be completely wrong but it's the only rationale I can come up with.

I think you’re over complicating it Nev, he just got his selection and tactics completely wrong. It’s happened a few times before and will again and it happens to the best of them. Unfortunately our Managers brain fart came in an FA Cup semi.

[PeterWithe]

To be fair we've played this way since he got here, keep the ball, wherever you are on the pitch, wait for the opp to overcommit and leave space and then try any move into it, this season by seemingly sacrificing width and playing vertical balls from Torres-Youri-Rogers/Asensio, but when that space doesn't appear, or the opp are particularly well drilled, we look ponderous and liable to make mistakes and get hit by fast counters. Which happens time and again against Palace. No surprise we looked at least like getting close to matching them when we bought on wide players in Bailey, Maatsen and JJ.