Mateu Alemany (with added Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez)

[mallo]

This is the first manager in a very long time I expect to recruit well with a plan. With these new guys coming in I suspect there will be a decent amount being bought for the future as well.

[Toronto Villa]

I had put this in the transfer thread earlier but give this one has the two new additions adding this article here

Aston Villa have beefed up their back room with the addition of not one – but two new faces.

By Ashley Preece

The resurgent Villans have today confirmed the arrival of Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez who join from Real Betis and Villarreal CF respectively.

They say: “Alberto brings a wealth of experience and a global network to the organisation and will work alongside Rob Mackenzie in a global technical role.”

Benito arrives having won the Copa del Rey, having qualified for Europe in the last three seasons and having worked with Unai Emery at both PSG and Arsenal.

Rodriguez is a relatively less high profile but adds to the brains trust set to oversee Villa’s progress on the analytical side of the game. Here’s what you need to know about him.

Who is he?

A 47-year-old who was most recently at Villarreal CF as a coaching staff member and senior scout. Villa also brought Emery from Villarreal CF last October. He spent three years at Villarreal having joined them from Valencia. However he knows Emery from their playing days at Ferrol back in 2000.

Relationship with Emery

In an interview with El Progresso he said: “Throughout my career I have had many coaches, but it is clear that if Unai has that path, it is for a reason. He is a top-level coach with absolute control of everything that has to do with the position and he is a very influential person in my career.”

Career highlight

Rodriguez was a technical analyst with Villarreal when they won the 2021 Europa League after a 22-penalty shoot-out against Manchester United. He was congratulated for that success by the mayoress of his home town Viveiro, which is on the Galician coast.

Playing career

He spent his playing days as a midfielder but outside of the Spanish top flight, between the Segunda and Tercera at Deportivo B, two stints with Lugo, at Rácing de Ferrol – with Emery, Girona, Leganés and Atlético Baleares, before retiring Pontes in 2010.

Technical career

He spent nine seasons at Valencia, where he also worked with Emery. He moved to Villarreal in 2020 having received a call from his former team-mate. “When he calls you, a coach of his prestige, to go to a club with such good references you have little to think about.” It seems Rodriguez is still in that mindset. Villa haven’t clarified his role yet but their announcement did make reference to their ‘global q[quote Aston Villa have beefed up their back room with the addition of not one – but two new faces.

By Ashley Preece

The resurgent Villans have today confirmed the arrival of Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez who join from Real Betis and Villarreal CF respectively.

They say: “Alberto brings a wealth of experience and a global network to the organisation and will work alongside Rob Mackenzie in a global technical role.”

Benito arrives having won the Copa del Rey, having qualified for Europe in the last three seasons and having worked with Unai Emery at both PSG and Arsenal.

Rodriguez is a relatively less high profile but adds to the brains trust set to oversee Villa’s progress on the analytical side of the game. Here’s what you need to know about him.

Who is he?

A 47-year-old who was most recently at Villarreal CF as a coaching staff member and senior scout. Villa also brought Emery from Villarreal CF last October. He spent three years at Villarreal having joined them from Valencia. However he knows Emery from their playing days at Ferrol back in 2000.

Relationship with Emery

In an interview with El Progresso he said: “Throughout my career I have had many coaches, but it is clear that if Unai has that path, it is for a reason. He is a top-level coach with absolute control of everything that has to do with the position and he is a very influential person in my career.”

Career highlight

Rodriguez was a technical analyst with Villarreal when they won the 2021 Europa League after a 22-penalty shoot-out against Manchester United. He was congratulated for that success by the mayoress of his home town Viveiro, which is on the Galician coast.

Playing career

He spent his playing days as a midfielder but outside of the Spanish top flight, between the Segunda and Tercera at Deportivo B, two stints with Lugo, at Rácing de Ferrol – with Emery, Girona, Leganés and Atlético Baleares, before retiring Pontes in 2010.

Technical career

He spent nine seasons at Valencia, where he also worked with Emery. He moved to Villarreal in 2020 having received a call from his former team-mate. “When he calls you, a coach of his prestige, to go to a club with such good references you have little to think about.” It seems Rodriguez is still in that mindset. Villa haven’t clarified his role yet but their announcement did make reference to their ‘global recruitment’.

[olaftab]

And if it weren't for the Italians we wouldn't have proper roads, sanitation, and the word villa. And dildo.

Thanks fook for that. Dildo has saved me many times.

[olaftab]

If Alemany is 47 he will join us, if not there is no chance.

[Footy-Vill]

If everyone is saying Almery isn't coming, we shouldn't have a thread about him for the time being, so maybe it's not all done?

And there could be a title thread for , Pablo Rodriguez and Alberto Benito either together or separately. I'm not sure why talk of them are being explicitly posted here.

However one thing we can now all agree is that Rodriguez and Benito confirm my prediction that there would be more and more Spanish influence running through the club.

[Drummond]

Oh FFS.

[CT Villan]

If everyone is saying Almery isn't coming, we shouldn't have a thread about him for the time being, so maybe it's not all done?
And there could be a title thread for , Pablo Rodriguez and Alberto Benito either together or separately. I'm not sure why talk of them are being explicitly posted here.
However one thing we can now all agree is that Rodriguez and Benito confirm my prediction that there would be more and more Spanish influence running through the club.

As such an obvious expert on these matters I would have expected you to at least be able get the man's name correct.

[not3bad]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

[OCD]

Amazing foresight.

[not3bad]

Pay no heed, it's Football Insider. The average age of their contributors is 15 which they claim as an exciting growth indicator in the notes to their annual accounts.

So yesterday "Football Insider" continued to push their Alemany theory and today they've moved on to claiming (again) that Martinez is off due to a personality clash with Unai. Do they do this to every team or do they just have a thing about Villa?

[Dave P]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

Contrast with the short term-ism at Wolves who have been built on sand for a few years now.

[LeeB]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

Contrast with the short term-ism at Wolves who have been built on sand for a few years now.

I read on their forum yesterday someone say exactly the same but the other way around, our owners were only interested in the 'now' but Fosun's plan was long term.

The fucking thick twats.

[paul_e]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

Contrast with the short term-ism at Wolves who have been built on sand for a few years now.

I read on their forum yesterday someone say exactly the same but the other way around, our owners were only interested in the 'now' but Fosun's plan was long term.

The fucking thick twats.

I'd love to see their working out on that.

[Hookeysmith]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

Contrast with the short term-ism at Wolves who have been built on sand for a few years now.

I read on their forum yesterday someone say exactly the same but the other way around, our owners were only interested in the 'now' but Fosun's plan was long term.

The fucking thick twats.

I'd love to see their working out on that.

Fag box and crayons no doubt

[LukeJames]

Who'd have thought a successful Spanish manager could bring a generally greater Spanish influence to the club. 9D thinking for sure.

Contrast with the short term-ism at Wolves who have been built on sand for a few years now.

I read on their forum yesterday someone say exactly the same but the other way around, our owners were only interested in the 'now' but Fosun's plan was long term.

The fucking thick twats.

I'd love to see their working out on that.

Its all quite simple really, get desperate in January and agree to take a player on loan that they don't really need, then agree to pay £40m in the Summer to keep him for real. Its brilliant long term thinking.