Unai Emery

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Without Unai this squad would be nowhere near the CL. Big issue for me is how reliant we still are on players that were here before him which means the squad is getting old and stale together.

I used to think this, but there are so many managers who are proving themselves capable of getting their teams - arguably with even less resources to us - near the Champions League spots: . Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford to name a few.

So I do think there are other managers who could be just as successful with our squad. It’s not Unai or bust..

Lol

[RamboandBruno]

Terrible night from him. But if he gets us into the champions league, with a squad where Sancho, Bailey, Abraham, Bogarde, and ageing Mings and Barkley are getting significant game time, would be a fooking miracle in all honesty.
I understand people are really pissed off but calling time up is a bit mad.

[Crown Hill]

The last two post match interviews have been the most unlike Emery I can remember. The VAR rant which we can all understand and get behind but it deflected from the rest of the display vs Forest. And today was a bit bonkers. Telling Villa fans that Spurs, third from bottom and 1 win in 2026 are an excellent side. It’s a bit insulting.

He can’t be honest about whatever he was up to tonight so just comes out with a few standard lines. He hates interviews anyway and doesn’t want to be held to account.

I’m still not entirely convinced who we actually rested tonight apart from the two central defenders.

One thing I did notice was Tammy telling Emi not to knock it long and to calm down so I think whatever game plan it was was to play very passively and to avoid injury.

[LeeB]

All things considered, whilst tonight stings, he's performed miracles with his resources and it's honestly felt like we've played 18 months of the last 2 years with 10 men.

[Olneythelonely]

All things considered, whilst tonight stings, he's performed miracles with his resources and it's honestly felt like we've played 28 months of the last 2 years with 10 men.

I’m finally calming down and coming around to this too. But think I’ll give up if we go out on Thursday. He might too.

[AndyB6]

Can Unai (or anyone else) explain why oir recruitment has been so sh*te for three years in a row? Guessand, Elliot, Sancho. What a waste! We do not spend wisely so we run out of steam every spring.

[LeeB]

Can Unai (or anyone else) explain why oir recruitment has been so sh*te for three years in a row? Guessand, Elliot, Sancho. What a waste! We do not spend wisely so we run out of steam every spring.

When you've got the resources we have and the needs required you have to take punts, and they've (predictably) not paid off.

Had we been allowed to compete then maybe the likes of Semenyo, but definitely the likes of Rashford and Asensio would be in our line up.

[Chip Butty 111]

He's polished the turd that Smith and Gerrard assembled and given us a great journey, sadly the players signed in his tenure have been largely shite...it's the Villa way 😔

[brontebilly]

On Mellins point. Interesting theory which would definitely have put pressure on Forest IF West Ham had won yesterday but they didn't. What tonight has actually done is taken away any momentum from the support which we so badly needed on Thursday and actually made most of the them actually angry at the team and Emery. Just like with "Moscow" away, it has also put a crap load of pressure on the team to actually now perform and any mistake made early on will affect any atmosphere exponentially worse.

I think I've talked myself back out of Mellin's theory.

Bailey and DL aren't likely to start on Thursday - why aren't they coming in (or at least coming on) for Tielemans and Rogers in the scenario where we don't really care and we want to save players?

YT and MR did their resting on the pitch tonight.

[Somniloquism]

Can Unai (or anyone else) explain why oir recruitment has been so sh*te for three years in a row? Guessand, Elliot, Sancho. What a waste! We do not spend wisely so we run out of steam every spring.

Monchi mainly with Emery being "demanding" as well. Also the transfer rules we have had pretty much since they got here but we could have worked around them better without the first two reasons.

[Sexual Ealing]

I genuinely think our players and management need to take ecstasy together.

[Somniloquism]

Unfortunately they did 20 mins before KO.

[Chip Butty 111]

Unfortunately they did 20 mins before KO.

..that explains Mings 'pass' into the Witton Lower then...?

[eamonn]

I genuinely think our players and management need to take ecstasy together.

They share mascara, I pretend.

[LeeB]

I genuinely think our players and management need to take ecstasy together.

Unlike Jake Humphrey I'm out of my comfort zone in the world of elite sports performance, however I reckon I've got the whip hand when it comes to eccies and this looks like sound advice to me