I don't want to be too mean because Agbonlahor exhibits signs of real learning deficiencies. I don't care about winning second tier European competitions. I know Emery managed to bottle a league title against a Monaco team made of kids. I know he managed to bottle a huge goal advantage against Barcelona when PSG should have gone through in the CL easily. I know he managed to bottle top 4 here with the easiest run in and an advantage in points because he chose to prioritize his favorite trophy only to get humiliated by Chelsea in the EL final. I know that if he wasn't facing the ultimate bottlers in Tottenham for the last CL place this season, he'd probably have bottled that too.
They'll give it to Klopp as a consolation/farewell gift. Arteta or Pep are the only 2 logical choices.
I guess it depends on the criteria. Klopp, Arteta and Unai are all currently above their club spending positions/squad cost. Klopp, 3 places, Arteta 3 places and Unai 5 places.
Touch and go. Both excelled for their spend.
How exactly is Emery not a logical choice? Villa qualifying for the CL is a huge achievement.
Because they manage the 2 best teams in the league by some distance. If we don't care about the level the team is performing at and it's just about punching above your weight then give it to Rob Edwards. If it's about who is actually doing the best job as indicative of where their teams are then the choice is clearly between Arteta and Pep.
Villa isn't a mid-table team or something, though. Qualifying for the CL is a standout achievement. I get the sentiment about weighing it like that, but there's enough weight behind Emery's case. I disagree that he's in a tier below Arteta and Pep here. Your argument applies to Iraola, but not Emery.
If he wins the league, he'll be 3rd by a huge margin.Happy with this, my first list was an absolute disaster though
Won't be that long before Mikel is above Emery too.
You can disagree all you want. My opinion is my opinion and yours is yours. I value top level team execution when praising a manager, not platitudes for punching above your weight. By the way, Iraola didn't even have a pre-season whereas Emery is over a year into the job and had a full pre-season to buy the players he wanted and impart his ideas. Iraola has had the more difficult task if that's the route we'd like to go down.
More Sherlock than Batman here. The forum wouldn't exist if we all displayed this attitude mate.
I think if we land the title after 20 years, you have to give serious consideration to Arteta. For me, I think Emery is in with a big shout. He's done very very well at Villa.
