One on One | Villa’s Emery on footballing dynasties and seizing the moment with McKenna at Ipswich
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Meanwhile, Juliette Ferrington is off to the manager’s office at Ipswich to speak to Kieran McKenna about back to back promotions, taking your chances, and when to stay loyal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Juliett Farrington. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Joe Tomlinson and welcome back to One-on-One from Sky Sports. |
| 0:12.7 | It's the podcast where we sit down for a chat with some of the biggest names in football. |
| 0:17.6 | And coming up on this episode, I meet one of the most talked about coaches in world football. |
| 0:22.8 | We've had so many players on this pod, praising his management style, and I get to see firsthand exactly |
| 0:28.5 | why. It's Aston Villa's Inouye Emery. One quality I think I have is through my father. |
| 0:35.0 | My father was very, very responsible man. |
| 0:39.0 | Very responsible man. |
| 0:41.5 | And do you think that that has spread through your team as well? |
| 0:44.0 | You impart responsibilities of positions. I want the player in the same way. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm being very, very responsive. |
| 0:48.3 | So many players have talked about Unae Emery on this part. |
| 0:51.9 | I've been down to Ipswich to speak to Kieran McKenna, |
| 0:55.1 | who's taken the club, as we know, from League 1 to the Premier League. |
| 0:58.2 | But he tells me how tricky that's been, balancing his squad with the demands of the top flight. |
| 1:02.5 | You want to reward the players who've been with you. |
| 1:04.6 | You want to keep as many of those as possible as part of the journey. |
| 1:08.6 | But you know that that, you feel that that |
| 1:11.0 | squad as it is, won't be competitive enough to compete in the Premier League, so you know you |
| 1:15.7 | have to bring in new players. It's, you know, I won't say an impossible task, but it's very, very |
| 1:20.7 | difficult. That's Kira McKenna and Unai Emory on the way on this week's one-on-one. |
| 1:29.9 | Joe, good to see you. |
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