Emery’s arrival at Villa Park in 2022 marked a new chapter for the club.
He brought with him six back room staff, with many of the old guards who left, and then Monchi arrived as president of football operations in June 2023, after having previously worked with Emery in Seville, winning three Titles of the Europa League together.
Emery has certainly been supported in the transfers market, spending around £ 295 million in 23 signings in the last four windows, including the impressive loan captures of Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio.
However, not everything has been a simple navigation, with the club retained by the rules of benefit and sustainability of the Premier League (PSR), having to raise funds in the summer selling to the graduates of the Omari Kellyman and Tim Ireegbunam academy, as well as Douglas Luiz and Moussa Diaby for significant money.
With a net transfer expenditure of approximately 15 million, the recruitment of the club has been even more impressive.
Emery’s Spanish soccer expert and biographer, Guillem Balague, explains how the head of Villa has rigidly stayed to his recruitment plan.
“He has always struggled to bring and play the type of players who possessed the necessary characteristics and shared his vision on how the game should be played,” he said.
“He has sold his vision of this future Aston Villa to the fans and has had to educate them in their ideas, showing that the success they can achieve should come along with the implementation of a game of cultivated and measured passes and not only one that is based on the game of a box of cash to box of 100 mph does not stop.”
But what else has Emery brought, far from the recruitment and the play style of the club?
Stories arose from how he had compiled files in each player before joining Villa, and how he can often see it leaving the Bodymoor Heath training field of the club until late at night.
Balague described how it is also very big in individual training, so all its players get clips in their direct opponent.
Your attention to detail is a characteristic that is spoken a lot, as well as your tactical brain.
“What separates the good managers from the great managers is that he has an excellent way of playing, but his management in the game is also incredible,” said Villa Tyrone Mings defender to Ben Foster’s Podcast Fozcast.
The midfielder John McGinn added to the BBC Sport: “Whatever happens so far and when he leaves, we hope he will never become one of the best managers in our club.”
