Unai Emery

[Richard E]

What happened in Stoke?

Small Heath were losing 1-0.

[eamonn]

Stoke has good WiFi.

[Nunkin1965]

Did you take advantage of.being in that part of the world and take a  look at the Lemmy memorial before the Stoke game?

[Toronto Villa]

And why doesn’t Emery just throw new players in. The lanky prick at Newcastle won the game on his debut. Yet we had 2 players in Elliott and Sancho who might have been an option to start today. Emery needs to trust the players more and take more risks.

[cdbearsfan]

Perhaps they weren't fully match fit.

[N'ZMAV]

this isn't going to end well

[Toronto Villa]

Perhaps they weren't fully match fit.

Sancho maybe. But Elliott has trained with Liverpool and all week with us. He could have started.

[ChicagoLion]

I don’t see any of the players that didn’t start making a huge difference offensively.
Genuinely, who do we have to replace Watkins?
It’s a shit situation and multiple poor transfer windows have caused this.
If/ when we sell Rogers for £80 million , would you trust this lot to spend it?

[Tuscans]

I don’t see any of the players that didn’t start making a huge difference offensively.
Genuinely, who do we have to replace Watkins?
It’s a shit situation and multiple poor transfer windows have caused this.
If/ when we sell Rogers for £80 million , would you trust this lot to spend it?

We probably wouldn't be allowed to spend it. If we could we would probably sign Oliver Skipp and Zirkzee.

[Proposition Joe]

Is this the first time in his managerial career that things have been a bit shit?

Irresistible force vs immovable object: the power of Unai to have never really done badly anywhere vs the power of Aston Villa to absolutely fuck a manager's career.

Is he in a patented Villa manager death-spiral, or is this a blip? At the end of the season, will we look back and say that it wasn't PSR/SCR in the summer that fucked our season, it was Unai in the summer not evolving our system of play?

God I hope not.

[ChicagoLion]

Is this the first time in his managerial career that things have been a bit shit?

Irresistible force vs immovable object: the power of Unai to have never really done badly anywhere vs the power of Aston Villa to absolutely fuck a manager's career.

Is he in a patented Villa manager death-spiral, or is this a blip? At the end of the season, will we look back and say that it wasn't PSR/SCR in the summer that fucked our season, it was Unai in the summer not evolving our system of play?

God I hope not.

I think it’s poor player acquisition.

[Chip Butty 111]

I don’t see any of the players that didn’t start making a huge difference offensively.
Genuinely, who do we have to replace Watkins?
It’s a shit situation and multiple poor transfer windows have caused this.
If/ when we sell Rogers for £80 million , would you trust this lot to spend it?

So many of today's starters have their best days behind them sadly. Cash, Mings, Digne, McGinn, Watkins, Buendia all on the downward curve. We look like we have gone stale with little energy or creativity in the side. Very worrying

[Proposition Joe]

Is this the first time in his managerial career that things have been a bit shit?

Irresistible force vs immovable object: the power of Unai to have never really done badly anywhere vs the power of Aston Villa to absolutely fuck a manager's career.

Is he in a patented Villa manager death-spiral, or is this a blip? At the end of the season, will we look back and say that it wasn't PSR/SCR in the summer that fucked our season, it was Unai in the summer not evolving our system of play?

God I hope not.

I think it’s poor player acquisition.

I don't think so - it's the way we are set up at the moment that's wrong. We have played much, much better than this with pretty much the same players.

[PaulWinch again]

I genuinely think it’s not about the players - or at least in terms of individual performance ability. There are far too many playing badly for it to be anything other than a wider issue. That might be a morale thing, a tactical thing, or a combination but players going away for international duty and showing what they can do shows Villa aren’t enabling them to do that at the moment.

My personal view is there’s a bit of feeling sorry for ourselves, which has fed into excessively negative and muddled thing in Unai and his coaching staff. They need to start being much more proactive and stop being so pathetic and meek - if we keep worrying about what might happen, it’s increasingly likely to happen.

[brontebilly]

Perhaps they weren't fully match fit.

Sancho maybe. But Elliott has trained with Liverpool and all week with us. He could have started.

Could have but if he did it was probably ahead of Buendia who was decent. Not the reason for our display anyway.

Missing Kamara, Tielemans gone after a half and everything else then it's not the worst result ever. But the performance was worrying.