Unai Emery

[RamboandBruno]

He badly needs this transfer window to shut, its just become a huge negative distraction, for him and the entire club, including the fanbase.
Problem is, unless something miraculous happens, he’s going to have a weaker squad to work with, early days, But Bizot and Guessand seem a big drop off from Emi, JJ, Bailey of 23/24.

I think Emery has worked minor miracles considering he’s to deal with losing Luiz, Disby, Duran, snd I’d be surprised if he can keep producing under these circumstances.
The breaks come at a good time, for a re-think and review of what ge’s got and what he can hope to achieve with them.

[john e]

The best thing Unai did when he came to Villa was improve every player, every player looked better under him
Then Rogers came in and he turned him into an 80 million superstar

Right now those same players are regressing under him, no one is improving I don’t know why
i’m pretty confident this won’t last and he’ll start to get the best out of players again, maybe there are issues going on, but we need the unity and confidence back

[brontebilly]

The best thing Unai did when he came to Villa was improve every player, every player looked better under him
Then Rogers came in and he turned him into an 80 million superstar

Right now those same players are regressing under him, no one is improving I don’t know why
i’m pretty confident this won’t last and he’ll start to get the best out of players again, maybe there are issues going on, but we need the unity and confidence back

I think John some of those players are just past their peak too. Digne, Mings, Watkins, McGinn - all brilliant players under Emery. But Emery does need to galvinize the group and quickly. He has been sulking as much as the players since the start of the season. They are capable of far more than they have showed so far and a top half finish.

[Smirker]

Dunno where to leave this but I think Unai should go for Jadon Sancho. Not working at MU but he is a potential world class player. We could get him I reckon, wages may be an issue however. Maybe we need a thread for out of window transfer talk/speculation.

Called It, over two years ago 

[Sexual Ealing]

I think I agreed with you!

[PeterWithesShin]

McGrath help him if he gets a load of assists.

[Brazilian Villain]

Dunno where to leave this but I think Unai should go for Jadon Sancho. Not working at MU but he is a potential world class player. We could get him I reckon, wages may be an issue however. Maybe we need a thread for out of window transfer talk/speculation.

Called It, over two years ago 

Great call, Smirker.

[wince]

Dunno where to leave this but I think Unai should go for Jadon Sancho. Not working at MU but he is a potential world class player. We could get him I reckon, wages may be an issue however. Maybe we need a thread for out of window transfer talk/speculation.

Called It, over two years ago 

Time travelling prick 😉

[Toronto Villa]

I hope I’m proved very around in about an hour or so but I’m starting to get a little worried about Unai Emery. Nowhere near Emery out talk. But the negative play this season is starting to fuck me off. No need for it every single game. We set up too deep take punches versus delivering them. We are wasting some top talent at the club by not allowing them to be more creative and expressive. It’s so dull right now. So I’m hoping there is a lot of egg on my face in the end but right now getting a bit nervous.

[Villan82]

It's also out of character with his tenure until this season when we regularly blew teams away and have been mostly quite a free-scoring team. It makes me sad to see us play like this under him

[eamonn]

We had this strategy for plenty of games last season. Emery peaked at Villa calendar year 2023. Like Gregory's incredible 1998. Sadly for both, the season is Aug to May.

[Holy Trinity]

As much as people are going to give me a load a grief he doesn't make it to October without a serious turn around in form.

[PaulWinch again]

I’m starting to get a bit concerned - Unai is doing stuff that suggests he’s in a negative space. Taking Ollie off at 0-0 is negative. The other bit that concerns me is that if - and I stress if, as I believe he can turn it round - he goes the entire football infrastructure is build around him. It’s not great for contingency.

Hopefully he realises what we are doing, or trying to do, is patently not working. The fact that our players got away from Villa over the international break and looked great is a really big red flag. We need to do something different.

[eamonn]

Even if we didn't score for another month I don't we could afford to sack him.

[colin69]

Personally I think he’s on borrowed time.