Aston_Villan4 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 1 minute ago, duke313 said: Sounds like he was our first choice all along. First “realistic” choice. Seems like Poch was their first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: So according to Mr Evans at The Athletic we made approaches a few weeks ago. Purslow flew to Spain after the Brentford game and it all got concluded very quickly with Jorge Menses. So I am assuming Unai has watched and knows the team from afar and will come in with an idea of what he needs to do initially to improve things. His backroom staff is still being sorted. The same Mr Evans who told us all we'd have a new manager next week? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 1 hour ago, useless said: I don't get this idea that he's a defensive manager, in his two seasons at The Yellow Submarine they were top scorers in La Liga other than the two Madrid teams and Barcelona, in his full season at Arsenal only Liverpool and Man City scored more, Paris Saint-Germain scored 108 goals when he won the league with them, in his last season with Sevilla they were fifth top scorers in La Liga, season before they were third top scorers, and in his first season with them they were fourth top scorers. Haven't looked as far back as when he was with Valencia, but going back almost ten years his teams have always been amongst the highest scorers in the league. Maybe defensive is the wrong word. His teams seem very organised without the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbvilla909 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 This time seven years ago we had Remi Garde take over.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, duke313 said: Sounds like he was our first choice all along. What are you suggesting? Are you suggesting that Poch was never offered the chance to turn us down? Paddy Power would look like total idiots if that were the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 2 hours ago, daft said: So now he's too attacking? I'm not sure I trust your friends football analysis skills. I remember them leaking goals for fun too be fair. But then they were under Wenger too. As mentioned by others his remit was attacking football. Arteta was then allowed to work on them defensively. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 You made the right choice Unai… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 I've just read a piece by Gulliem Balague regarding Emery's appointment. He really gave it a positive spin to the extent that it gave me tingles. Hopefully, this is a marriage made in Heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 6 hours ago, villa4europe said: winning a cup would be incredible, if we won a cup and played in europe enabling us to utilise the youngsters in dead rubbers vs the team 5th in the romanian league i could take baby steps in the league for a couple of seasons if you look at arsenal and chelsea europe is huge for the youngsters, west ham have qualified from their conference group and have Silkeborg at home up next, can you imagine if that was us in 2 years time? 5 or 6 of the youngsters could get a game, I'm close to saying its actually key to us progressing Have said this before, but playing in Europe provides so many advantages. People always focus - understandably, because they are real! - on the money and the prestige, but another one is the extra fixtures. Frex, Grealish can play in about 70% of Man City's fixtures and get as many games a season as he would have done playing every week at Villa. Allows these clubs to provide enough opportunities to keep the best talent happy on the bench. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 17 minutes ago, duke313 said: Sounds like he was our first choice all along. 14 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said: First “realistic” choice. Seems like Poch was their first choice. I've posted this previousley Percy has stated he was the first choice..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Jas10 said: You made the right choice Unai… That Sid Lowe dude dug himself a proper hole, and when called out he decided to keep digging. Absolutely clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, imavillan said: I've posted this previousley Percy has stated he was the first choice..... Oh damn, thanks for sharing. Hadn’t seen this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Sacked Gerrard Thursday night and by Friday emery had told villarreal he was leaving? Sounds like we knew exactly what we wanted and poch and tuchel were part of playing the game, not sure if it was by us or by them, wouldn't be surprised if tuchel publicly rejected a job he wasn't offered and villa were happy to let him do it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted October 25, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2022 2 hours ago, romavillan said: It'd be moving bits of scotch egg and kebab about not nice neat counters. It works up to a point, but sooner or later you've eaten John McGinn and the match has been abandoned. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 (edited) just listening to Claret & Blue Podcast, its live, Guillem Balague (Spanish Journalist) has said Emery's assistant at Villa will be a coach who was a European Cup winner and has knowledge of the PL, he said he couldnt say yet who that is though. Wonder who that is?!!? He said it would be "very exciting". Edited October 25, 2022 by MaVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Guillem Balague has just said on the Claret & Blue podcast live that Emery's assistant he is bringing is a European cup winner and an elite coach. He spoke to the people he wants in his backroom team on Sunday night and they all agreed to join him at Villa, and began looking at houses (online I presume) Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Just now, MaVilla said: just listening to Claret & Blue Podcast, its live, Guillem Balague (Spanish Journalist) has said Emery's assistant at Villa will be a European Cup winner and has knowledge of the PL, he said he couldnt say yet who that is though. Wonder who that is?!!? Damn, beat me to it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 He also said the assistant is an elite coach too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Just now, sne said: The obvious name would be Pablo Villanueva who's been assistant for him everywhere. Won a cup with Sevilla, but not ads player Has the name of Villa in his name. It's meant to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Burgos, Simone’s old assistant. Would love it for the aggression the man shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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