How Unai Emery turned Aston Villa around

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jon Mackenzie is joined by Sam Tighe to discuss how Unai Emery has turned things around at Aston Villa. What were the initial feelings when Emery was named new Villa manager? Why did Emery and Villa click so immediately? Going into the summer, where were the areas Villa needed to improve based on the previous season? Can Villa be genuine top 4 contenders? This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.8	Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm John Mackenzie and I'm joined
0:27.0	as I always am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmer and Mike Hady.
0:31.0	It's Thanksgiving week here in the US, US John so just getting ready for that turkey.
0:35.2	You feeling very thankful? Absolutely of course. I mean I'm here with you.
0:38.8	And another thing we have to feel thankful about is our guest today because we are joined by Sam Tai who is often seen on the TIFO IRL channel
0:47.0	Also seen on lots of other outlets as well and we are talking everything uni Emory and Aston Villa because there's probably no other team in the
0:55.1	last calendar year he's had quite the vertiginous rise that Aston Villa have
0:59.2	had Mike you've just listened to that conversation what did you make of it?
1:02.4	I really enjoyed Sam kind of talk Mike, you've just listened to that conversation. What did you make a bit?
1:02.7	I really enjoyed Sam kind of talking about
1:06.1	the evolution from the team under Stephen Gerard
1:09.8	to Unai Emory.
1:11.0	Under Gerard, there wasn't a clear picture or direction or identity
1:15.7	Whereas Unai Emry came in wasn't necessarily popular amongst fans and there were there were some groans but there was a certain
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