Steve Merrill

🚨🎙️Unai emery on his heated altercation with Youri Tielemans after Manchester United vs Aston Villa: • Interviewer: Unai, the touchline incident with Youri Tielemans at full time… what happened there? 🗣️Emery: “He came at me like he still works for me. He doesn’t. He left. He chose them. So I told him the truth. Simple. • Interviewer: What truth? 🗣️Emery: “That some players here think the Manchester United shirt is enough. They put it on and suddenly they are big men. Big voices. Big personalities. But the shirt does not play. The shirt does not run. The shirt does not make decisions. And today, again, the shirt was not enough. • Interviewer: Strong words. Are you saying United’s players have an attitude problem? 🗣️Emery: “I am saying some of them believe the history and the name will do the work for them. They walk like they are still the biggest club, still the biggest dressing room, still the ones everyone must respect. But football does not work like that anymore. You have to earn it every week. Not every ten years. • Interviewer: Tielemans looked furious. Did he say something that crossed a line? 🗣️Emery: “He said what he wanted. I said what I wanted. But I will tell you this: when he was with us, he knew his place. He knew the standards. He knew we were building something real, something that was going somewhere. Now he is at a club that still lives off the past. And some of them act like that past makes them untouchable. It doesn’t. • Interviewer: Final word on United? 🗣️Emery: “They are not what they think they are. And some of their players need to understand that before they start shouting at people who are actually doing the work.”