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Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15450 on: May 04, 2026, 10:25:04 AM »
learn to cope better.
the players need to do this too

Offline frank black

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15451 on: May 04, 2026, 10:43:22 AM »
The morning after and I care as much about last nights game as Unai did.

Feel for those that paid full price to go and watch it and expected us to turn up.

Online eamonn

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15452 on: May 04, 2026, 10:45:30 AM »
Pressure Is A Privilege!
Anger Is An Energy!

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15453 on: May 04, 2026, 10:48:58 AM »
I like the shared wallowing. Sense of community and all that.

Online Sexual Ealing

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15454 on: May 04, 2026, 11:06:15 AM »
There is no possible way to construe not beating Tottenham as being in anyway close to beating Forest and getting to Istanbul. Not one compelling case.

Spurs are fucking wank and have finished below us every season under Emery, because they're not as good. Long may they continue to "steal" our transfers like Gallagher, when we make enough bad choices of our own.

Stop contorting yourselves into the most miserable take possible because you have nervous energy you don't know how to dispalce. Didplace it where I cant read it. Go piss around in your gardens, go for a walk. Play with your kids. Impulse buy a pet. Wash the car.

We're all nervous, its fucking great. We're under huge pressure, as we absolutely should be. An absolute privilege, learn to cope better.

Perhaps take a pill?

Online aj2k77

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15455 on: May 04, 2026, 11:07:03 AM »
Should have taken the chance to bury Spurs.

In some ways that was a bigger opportunity for our future than Thursday.

Will take a long time to get over.

Beating Tottenham and keeping them in the bottom 3 is a bigger opportunity that a European final and a very good possibility of silverware?

I may be old fashioned but surely not.

Offline Nev

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15456 on: May 04, 2026, 11:10:53 AM »
I've said it before, and particularly after various LC capitulations, but the team plays in the image of its manager and that's what happened last night.

Offline Ads

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15457 on: May 04, 2026, 11:12:33 AM »
I've said it before, and particularly after various LC capitulations, but the team plays in the image of its manager and that's what happened last night.

Fair. When the gaffer is not arsed, why would you be.

Online aj2k77

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15458 on: May 04, 2026, 11:21:33 AM »
I've said it before, and particularly after various LC capitulations, but the team plays in the image of its manager and that's what happened last night.

Well I have even more confidence about Thursday as Emery is a winner and is passionate about achieving something here. If the players are as demanding and stick to the game plan like Emery then we will win.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15459 on: May 04, 2026, 12:19:41 PM »
Think it’s perfectly conceivable that we simply didn’t see the game against Spurs as being worth expending energy on. As long as we finish top 5 the exact position isn’t that important if you’re not in a title race. The game against Forest on Thursday has a very real impact on how our season looks.

Disappointing result, but I’m not concerned by it.

I did think when I saw the team that he obviously felt that last night was the least priority game of the 3 this week.  If he felt that the players couldn't manage 3 games in a week at this point and thar he wanted to keep them as fresh as possible for what he saw are the two most important games, then I can somewhat get the logic, as disappointing as last night was.

Offline Stu

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15460 on: May 04, 2026, 01:43:03 PM »
I reckon a lot of people are talking themselves into thinking Unai is the problem when he’s clearly the best manager we’ve had in over 40 years. Recruitment under him hasn’t been especially good but given the constraints we have to operate under I’m not sure it’s _that_ much of a criticism. Some signings don’t work out but unfortunately the way the rules are means we can’t go and spend another £30/40m on another player despite being able to afford to. Consider that spuds Europa win was achieved by giving up on the league, Newcastle’s league cup win same, and our opponents in the semis this year are Forest who are 16th and in a relegation scrap; that we’re consistently going deep into European competitions whilst also maintaining consistent challenges for CL football is pretty remarkable.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15461 on: May 04, 2026, 01:50:16 PM »
There is no possible way to construe not beating Tottenham as being in anyway close to beating Forest and getting to Istanbul. Not one compelling case.

Spurs are fucking wank and have finished below us every season under Emery, because they're not as good. Long may they continue to "steal" our transfers like Gallagher, when we make enough bad choices of our own.

Stop contorting yourselves into the most miserable take possible because you have nervous energy you don't know how to dispalce. Didplace it where I cant read it. Go piss around in your gardens, go for a walk. Play with your kids. Impulse buy a pet. Wash the car.

We're all nervous, its fucking great. We're under huge pressure, as we absolutely should be. An absolute privilege, learn to cope better.

Perhaps take a pill?

Stick a deckchair up your nose, fly a jumbo jet and pretend your name is Keith.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15462 on: May 04, 2026, 01:53:49 PM »
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 😔

So we get Smith back in and in charge of our transfers.

Sorted  8)

But Deano bought Watkins, and what a fuck-up that was! So he's far from perfect.

Nobody is perfect.  8)

Offline gpbarr

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15463 on: May 04, 2026, 02:31:01 PM »
Not going to try to defend what happened yesterday - totally unacceptable to lose a game in that fashion.

However, having sobered up a little …

This season will still be a triumph if we beat Forest on Thursday (so resting players made sense to me) and qualify for the CL (which I think we will regardless others results because all the clubs 6th down have left it too late and have too much to do to overtake us).

The other thing that hit me is that regardless what happens in next few weeks, this summer is probably going to be the biggest test yet for Nas and Wes and the administrators at the club.

We have an aged squad.
We lack quality in depth (see yesterday!)
Unai may decide it’s time to move on
Morgan will be sold

Unai and the senior players have IMO done a wonderful job and brought far more good days than bad. But all things must come to an end - perhaps this summer might see significant overhaul to keep the project the owners have on track.


Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #15464 on: May 04, 2026, 02:35:41 PM »
Point of order - if we beat Forest (huge if right now) it’ll give us a route to the season being a triumph.

 


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