Jamie Carragher: You can make an argument that Unai Emery is the third best manager in this Premier League. If you back over the last 12 months since he came in at Villa, if you are talking about Man Utd, Aston Villa are a better coached team than United. There is no doubt about that.
I always find this a weird thing people obsess about. Like Pep would struggle at Everton with the players they have, but Sean Dyche wouldn’t be a success at City. Peps a top class manager for working with top class players. Lewis Hamilton wouldn’t win the grand prix in my car but I’d be rubbish at the grand prix in his. Its such a weird take trying to do down Pep for only being at the best teams.
Pep is a great manager of massive ego’s…like Joe Torre with the New York Yankees or Phil Jackson with the bulls and Lakers…I honestly don’t know if he could do what Emery is doing with Villa…
This argument is so old and so stupid imo. It’s like saying would like to see Lewis Hamilton win a grand prix in a skoda. Ok that’s prob a bad example but let’s flip your scenario how well would city do under emery? He would do nothing near what pep has done imo.
I don’t even like city but this argument winds me up. The guy has a spotless cv but people assume he’d struggle with a less talented side. He clearly understands football and how to set up a team.
exact same spot. pep is not a miracle worker. he takes world class players and puts them into role positions. aston villa does not have world class players
When pep came to man city there were only a couple world class players, kdb aguero and and injury prone Kompany, the only ones he real signed were mahrez and haaland, he takes decent players and turns to world class like stones grealish and bernado
I’m sorry, over a billion spent and he only really bought 2 world class players? And he took a “decent” Grealish for 100 mil? Either he’s a shit spender with a crap eye, or you’re huffing pure bollocks.
Yes very few players can be considered world class, we’re not like madrid who were buying all the recent balon dor winners. Grealish was not even top 5 itw in his position, far from world class when bought him
His first choice left back was “unavailable” and his 2nd choice left back was a natural midfielder so he changed the whole teams play style to incorporate one of the fullbacks drifting inside. Nobody had really done that before, now everyone does.
Everyone said that he’d have a problem playing D Silva and Kevin in the same midfield cause “you can’t play 2 #10s” but now several top teams play with two play makers in #8 roles.
He’s now got a world class but unusual player in Haaland who is a striker who really doesn’t get involved in build up and just sits on the shoulder of the last man waiting for chances which everybody said you couldn’t do because the whole team has to be involved to maintain possession against the high pressing that’s common in the prem and it’s also working well for him.
He’s had some other ideas that didn’t work as well that he abandoned but you’ve got to credit his creativity and willingness to try new things despite arm chair experts all calling him a crazy bald fraud time and time again
Never will, but would love to see Pep in Emery’s place and see where he’d have the Villa squad in the table.
I always find this a weird thing people obsess about. Like Pep would struggle at Everton with the players they have, but Sean Dyche wouldn’t be a success at City. Peps a top class manager for working with top class players. Lewis Hamilton wouldn’t win the grand prix in my car but I’d be rubbish at the grand prix in his. Its such a weird take trying to do down Pep for only being at the best teams.
Pep is a great manager of massive ego’s…like Joe Torre with the New York Yankees or Phil Jackson with the bulls and Lakers…I honestly don’t know if he could do what Emery is doing with Villa…
All these Pep haters. He’d be doing the exact same as Emery. All he’d need is time and £1.1bn.
Should take Sunderland and take the treble in 3 years
This argument is so old and so stupid imo. It’s like saying would like to see Lewis Hamilton win a grand prix in a skoda. Ok that’s prob a bad example but let’s flip your scenario how well would city do under emery? He would do nothing near what pep has done imo.
I don’t even like city but this argument winds me up. The guy has a spotless cv but people assume he’d struggle with a less talented side. He clearly understands football and how to set up a team.
exact same spot. pep is not a miracle worker. he takes world class players and puts them into role positions. aston villa does not have world class players
But we’ve got McGinn
When pep came to man city there were only a couple world class players, kdb aguero and and injury prone Kompany, the only ones he real signed were mahrez and haaland, he takes decent players and turns to world class like stones grealish and bernado
And a 22 year old Sterling, David Silva, and then he went and got Stones, Gündoğan, Sane, Bravo, G Jesus,
I’m sorry, over a billion spent and he only really bought 2 world class players? And he took a “decent” Grealish for 100 mil? Either he’s a shit spender with a crap eye, or you’re huffing pure bollocks.
Yes very few players can be considered world class, we’re not like madrid who were buying all the recent balon dor winners. Grealish was not even top 5 itw in his position, far from world class when bought him
I think this is doing pep a bit of a disservice.
His first choice left back was “unavailable” and his 2nd choice left back was a natural midfielder so he changed the whole teams play style to incorporate one of the fullbacks drifting inside. Nobody had really done that before, now everyone does.
Everyone said that he’d have a problem playing D Silva and Kevin in the same midfield cause “you can’t play 2 #10s” but now several top teams play with two play makers in #8 roles.
He’s now got a world class but unusual player in Haaland who is a striker who really doesn’t get involved in build up and just sits on the shoulder of the last man waiting for chances which everybody said you couldn’t do because the whole team has to be involved to maintain possession against the high pressing that’s common in the prem and it’s also working well for him.
He’s had some other ideas that didn’t work as well that he abandoned but you’ve got to credit his creativity and willingness to try new things despite arm chair experts all calling him a crazy bald fraud time and time again