Unai Emery

[Monty]

Form is mysterious. Good players become shit, cloggers suddenly can't stop scoring. You can see how much of technique is about being sharp in the mind - our guys kept misplacing passes, screwing up their first touches, losing confidence in themselves to make threadier balls in the tight spaces, while Sunderland's gang feel on a role, they kept being able to do what they wanted, find who they were looking for, win the duels.

It's a kind of collective psychological phenomenon - playing with good and confident players will make you better and more confident, and viceversa, and the reverse. We need something to push on the wheel to make it go the other way for us again.

I've said before that I think it could be a tactical thing that helps, and Emery seems to agree. He said (more or less, to coin a phrase) that everyone knows what we want to do, and we have to find new ways of doing it. Obviously the players need to step up too, but he can help them by giving them a better-adapted gameplan, and I think he knows it.

[astonvilla82]

Managers take all the blame regardless of what club it is, while players hide behind the managers,he stays for me, you don't need talent to put in a shift on the pitch for the Villa

[cdbearsfan]

Im in the sell, sell, sell camp for January and get some ‘young and hungry’ players in selected by our new DoF

We can only bring in, I think, three players. Assuming we want them to play in Europe for us.

[PaulWinch again]

Managers take all the blame regardless of what club it is, while players hide behind the managers,he stays for me, you don't need talent to put in a shift on the pitch for the Villa

I think that’s too simplistic, in that it’s not just putting in a shift. Or more to the point if that is truly the case, why are they universally going from putting in a shift to not.

I want Unai to stay, but he needs to reflect that whatever he is doing right now isn’t working.

[PaulTheVillan]

Managers take all the blame regardless of what club it is, while players hide behind the managers,he stays for me, you don't need talent to put in a shift on the pitch for the Villa

I think that’s too simplistic, in that it’s not just putting in a shift. Or more to the point if that is truly the case, why are they universally going from putting in a shift to not.

I want Unai to stay, but he needs to reflect that whatever he is doing right now isn’t working.

I can imagine Unai is feeling this the most and is probably working as hard as ever to resolve it.

I hope that the players are on board and are all pulling together.

[kippaxvilla2]

I agree with Nick.

[kippaxvilla2]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/09/23/aston-villa-chaos-unai-emery-committed-turning-it-around/

[Tuscans]

I'd give Alberto Benito ( chief scout ) the kick as well. He follows Unai everywhere he goes and has found some right shite, notable at Arsenal...Bernd Leno, Dani Ceballos, David Luiz, Kieran Tierney, Lucas Torreira, Matteo Guendouzi, Nicolas Pépé, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, William Saliba, Gabriel Martinelli, and Denis Suárez...Saliba being the only good'un out of that lot.

[ChicagoLion]

I'd give Alberto Benito ( chief scout ) the kick as well. He follows Unai everywhere he goes and has found some right shite, notable at Arsenal...Bernd Leno, Dani Ceballos, David Luiz, Kieran Tierney, Lucas Torreira, Matteo Guendouzi, Nicolas Pépé, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, William Saliba, Gabriel Martinelli, and Denis Suárez...Saliba being the only good'un out of that lot.

A little bit harsh, but some dud’s alright.