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Stan Collymore
@StanCollymore
Monchi.
Lots of social media with others in recruitment about how hard they worked ( so do others, especially Brighton and Bournemouth) which struck a chord with Villans as the going was good.
But I make it 3 resounding successes in the market ( players who play for the first team, not jiggery pokery for PSR) in Tielemans, Rogers and Pau out of a 20+ incoming of players. That's average recruitment at best.
Emery wanted him and this now raises the question as to whether Unai's tenure will now grind to an end of season halt ( *fires starting pistol on speculation every week about United, etc etc etc) or whether Unai has agreed with my analysis, biffed off a great friend but "business is business" and a new shiny recruitment guy comes in with a better strike rate.
Said on here a few weeks back that recruitment at a club like Villa has to be at 80+% success rate in order to compete so that's the task for the new person.
I hope Emery strikes up a rapport with someone new and gets his mojo back, doubles down and commits to the long haul.
He's not of our neck of the woods though, he'll have suitors in Spain, probably one or two big Italian clubs and should United be serious about change then they'll have a sniff too, why wouldn't they, they can offer almost unlimited resources to back up what Villa did last season with multiple seasons of serious cash support.
The next 48 hours will tell everything. If he's bullish and wants to stay, you'll see it as he's a straight talker.
If he doesn't look at the camera, fidgits with his ear and doesn't answer " do you see your long term at Villa?" then the owners and new recruitment guy need to get a list together quickly in case he exits sooner or end of season.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
UP THE RECRUITMENTLESS VILLA!
