Unai Emery

[SaddVillan]

Emery's management this season to me, draws parallels with British Cycling's pre 2008 Olympics 'secret squirrel' backroom team.

They trialled/introduced all sorts of minor individual tweaks and improvements to bikes and kit, either individually or in various combinations in lots of different pre-Olympic events and carefully noted which ones worked

And then come the big day, they put everything together and wiped the floor winning a huge number of golds.

I get the impression that Emery has been sort of doing this all season, so that with 10 league games left and with us still chasing the Holy Grail and in the knockout stages of the ECL he was able put it all together:

Starting elevens, substitutions, squad rotations, load management formations and tactics etc, all brilliantly managed.

OK, he's fortunate that we've got a fully fit squad, but that's down to the work of the sports medical side combinex with  transfer window wizadry - something all clubs could do.

But here we are, despite the disappointment of going out against PSG - 5th equal on points with 5 games to go and an FA Cup semi-final on Saturday.

In Unai we trust.

[ChicagoLion]

He got it wrong tonight.
That was shit.

[eamonn]

Never seen him look so gutted at the concession of a goal and a defeat.

[Louzie0]

Onward and upward, Unai!

[andyh]

Never seen him look so gutted at the concession of a goal and a defeat.

He should be.
He made bad choices tonight.

The passiveness of the team, especially in the last 10 mins where we showed no desire to win or hold the ball was the reason we lost that.
We stood off and let them have complete ownership of the ball and the space.

[ChicagoLion]

No disguising his fuck up tonight.

[Clampy]

No disguising his fuck up tonight.

Maybe, and he's not beyoned criticism but let's not get carried away with it. He's done alright.

[PeterWithesShin]

Rage sack him Nas!

[eamonn]

Nas has already rage-moved to the Middle East.

[ChicagoLion]

Never seen him look so gutted at the concession of a goal and a defeat.

He should be.
He made bad choices tonight.

The passiveness of the team, especially in the last 10 mins where we showed no desire to win or hold the ball was the reason we lost that.
We stood off and let them have complete ownership of the ball and the space.

Just like he spotted that Trippier was vulnerable and put Ramsey on, how the fuck does he not work out that Desasi is not vulnerable?

[PhilVill]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

[London Villan]

He’ll know he got it wrong.

[ChicagoLion]

When he gets things right he deserves praise, when he gets it wrong he deserves criticism.
He got it wrong tonight, he got it wrong with his substitutions against PSG in the second half.
It does not mean he is not a great manager.

[ChicagoLion]

Look at the strength of our squad now.
It’s amazing and we have seen what this team can do to the opposition.
So I don’t get why we were so passive against an average Citeh team, I don’t get why knowing that Guardiola allways brings on Doku to try to change the game and why we have stuck a centre back out there to get taken to the cleaners and lose the game.

[cdbearsfan]

Rage sack him Nas!

I'll be surprised if he doesn't sack him on the coach, again.