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Adam Spurrier retweeted
📈 That's 3 wins in their last 4 Premier League games for Aston Villa beating top the table today. And they've got 100% record in the Champions League too.
But it's not just how Aston Villa are playing under Unai Emery that's so 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚, it's the way he keeps the club moving forward despite losing so many important players this summer:
▪️They lost their best player to Chelsea.
▪️They lost their best defender to Arsenal.
▪️They lost their midfield engine to Man Utd.
▪️They lost their left-back to PSG.
▪️They lost their top scorer to Saudi.
▪️They lost their World Cup winning goalkeeper to Chelsea.
Emery demands maximum intensity and the highest standards from his team, consistently finding ways to win football matches. No excuses, just hard work.
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Victor Lindelöf's half by numbers vs. Man City:
100% aerial duels won
100% ground duels won
100% tackles won
95% pass accuracy in his own half
Unai Emery working wonders with Lindelöf. 🪄
Adam Spurrier retweeted
📊 Aston Villa are the 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 team Erling Haaland has lost to more times than he has beaten in the Premier League (minimum five meetings).
His 𝐓𝐖𝐎 goal involvements against Villa are also his fewest against any team he's faced 5+ times in the competition.
#AVFC
Adam Spurrier retweeted
🏟️ Villa Park is a 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 in Europe, with Unai Emery's team unbeaten in their last 15 home games in the Champions League or Europa League:
✅ 3-1 win vs. Viking 🇳🇴
✅ 6-0 win vs. Fenerbahçe 🇹🇷
✅ 4-0 win vs. Nottingham Forest 🏴
✅ 4-0 win vs. Bologna 🇮🇹
✅ 2-0 win vs. Lille 🇫🇷
✅ 3-2 win vs. Salzburg 🇦🇹
✅ 2-1 win vs. Young Boys 🇨🇭
✅ 2-0 win vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv 🇮🇱
✅ 1-0 win vs. Bologna 🇮🇹
✅ 3-2 win vs. PSG 🇫🇷
✅ 3-0 win vs. Club Brugge 🇧🇪
✅ 4-2 win vs. Celtic 🏴
🤝 0-0 draw vs. Juventus 🇮🇹
✅ 2-0 win vs. Bologna 🇮🇹
✅ 1-0 win vs. Bayern Munich 🇩🇪
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Since the turn of the century, only three English teams have won 12 European home games in a row 🤯
Our boss puts us in elite company 🔝
Adam Spurrier retweeted
🚨 Villa’s £137m transfer model vindicated by study
- CIES study shows non-academy value up £137m in five years
- Four of those years came under manager Unai Emery
- Reached Champions League twice, won Europa League
- Only City, Arsenal, Liverpool earned more points since 2022
- Lost over half of Europa League final starting XI last summer
- Ten new signings brought in to replace key departures
- Villa generated more than £300m in sales last summer
- Targeted younger players to cut average age, wage bill
- Only City and Chelsea rank above Villa among "big six"
- Man Utd suffered league's largest depreciation at £342m
Adam Spurrier retweeted
No matter what you say, this is the most outrageous shot ever played in pool history.
Adam Spurrier retweeted
This has been a 9/10 transfer window.
Old and tired? Gone.
Want out? Gone.
Flirting with other clubs again? Gone.
And unlike previous windows… we didn’t hang around.
Tielemans gone? Bang! Gomes!
Martinez going? Bang! Suzuki!
Watkins going? Bang! Jackson!
The recruitment team were clearly well prepared… ready to pull the trigger as soon as a sale dropped. Sometimes prepared to swoop before the related sale even finalised to make sure we were secure.
Window after window of scrabbling for desperate signings on deadline day…
Now we sit, relaxed, on deadline day - watching others chase players up and down the UK’s motorways. Well within any financial restrictions with a strong mix of dynamism, power, youth and experience signed and sealed.
Need more pace? Got it.
Need lower wages? Got it.
Need a younger squad? Got it.
Need better deep distribution? Got it.
While the uninitiated in wider media spoke half-truths and tried to sow seeds of panic and discord - our leadership remained level headed.
Mapped-out. Intelligent. Calm. Professional.
As our badge used to say… we were Prepared.
UTV
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Since Matteo Perin has joined Palermo, there are now no Italians in Serie A who have made a world cup appearance since the tournament started nearly a century ago!
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Genuinely just fuck this shit
Villa and Newcastle dismantled and the 17th place side are spending £300million+
🚨 Tottenham Hotspur working on double deal to sign Savinho & Omar Marmoush from Manchester City. #THFC aiming to land both 22yo Brazil winger + 27yo Egypt forward as key targets to strengthen attack - not done but talks with #MCFC advancing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7518499…
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Villa double their revenue, qualify for CL 2 out of 3 yrs, win a trophy, spend the least (net) of any team in whole PL over 5 yrs, yet still lose half their team to the big 6. This is why SCR doesn’t work. Prevents challengers from paying wages needed to retain their best players
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Villa and Newcastle having to sell their best players this summer.
Those financial rules really starting to pay off...
18+ GambleAware
Adam Spurrier retweeted
7 years ago Aston Villa were in turmoil. In the Championship and on the brink of oblivion.
Since then they’ve qualified for the Champions League twice and won the Europa League without breaking the bank
That’s what having a proper manager does
Adam Spurrier retweeted
Key Departures and Replacements:
Rogers 🏴 (24) --> Manzambi 🇨🇭 (20)
Tielemans 🇧🇪 (29) --> Gomes 🇧🇷 (25)
Sancho 🏴 (26) --> Garnacho 🇦🇷 (22)
*Digne 🇫🇷 (33) --> *Ruggeri 🇮🇹 (24)
Good bit of a squad refresh age wise #AVFC