Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest: How Uni Emery has transformed Villa

The arrival of Emery at Villa Park in 2022 marked a new chapter for the club.

Brought with him six members of the work on the back, with many of the old guard at the start, and then Monchi has arrived As president of the football operations in June 2023, having previously worked with Emery in Sevilla, winning three titles of the Europa League together.

Emery was certainly supported in the transfers market, spending about £ 295 million with 23 signatures in the last four windows, including the impressive loan catches by Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio.

However, it was not all simple, with the club detained by the rules of profit and sustainability of the Premier League (PSR), which had to raise funds in the summer by selling the graduates of the Omari Kellyman Academy and Tim Iroegbunam, as well as Douglas Luiz and Moussa Diaby for significant money.

With a net transfer expenditure of about £ 15 million, the club’s recruitment was even more impressive.

Guillem Balague, Spanish football expert and Emery biographer, explains how the villa boss strictly blocked on his recruitment plan.

“He has always tried to bring and play the type of players who owned the necessary characteristics and shared his vision on how the game should be played,” he said.

“He sold his vision of this future Aston Villa to the fans and had to educate them in his ideas, showing them that the success he can achieve should derive from the implementation of a caught and measured passage game and not only that he is based on the game of a non-stop box-to-box game.”

But what else did Emery brought, far from the recruitment and playing of the club?

Stories emerged of how Dossiers had completed each player before joining Villa and how you can often be seen to leave the training ground for the club’s bodymor in the late night.

Balague has described how very large for the individual coaching, so his players all get clips on their direct opponent.

His attention to detail is a characteristic of which we speak a lot, as well as his tactical brain.

“What separates the good managers from great managers is that it has an excellent way of playing, but also its in-game management is so surprising,” said Ben Foster’s Podcast Fozcast.

The midfielder John McGinn added to the sport of the BBC: “It doesn’t matter what happens so far and every time he leaves – we hope he is never – he will surely go down as one of the greatest managers of our club”.