On October 25, La Liga team Villarreal officially announced that the team's manager Unai Emery had terminated his contract with the club.
Subsequently, Premier League side Aston Villa officially announced that Emery will be the team's new manager, and he will officially take over after completing the formalities on November 1.
Prior to this, there have been many reports that Villa will activate the €6 million termination clause in Emery's submarine contract to poach the Spanish boss.
Emery, who returns to the Premier League, needs to take over the gun from his predecessor Steven Gerrard to complete his unfinished career, and more importantly, Emery needs to re-prove himself in the Premier League.
First, the fundamental reason why Gerrard was fired is the lack of coaching ability.
When Gerrard took over at Villa last year, he wanted to use his Glasgow Rangers' success to start a reform campaign, but was quickly corrected by the Premier League and returned to defensive counter-attack, Villa were relegated.
Gerard went from being a radical to becoming a conservative quickly.
And this season's Gerrard has been reduced to an ultra-conservative.
After 11 rounds of the Premier League, Gerrard's Villa have only scored seven goals, and it is only natural that they will fall into the relegation zone.
Basically, now Villa's game is even more boring than Moyes' West Ham, and Gerrard's tactic is only one, which is to give the ball to Cash, and Cash will cross again, but the problem is that Watkins are not good at heading forwards at all.
Even old teammate Carragher doesn't give Gerrard face: I must say that Villa play more like a futsal game.
At the beginning, letting Mins give up the captain showed that Gerard's emotional intelligence was not enough.
The fact that Coutinho, who the team spent a lot of money on, did not play at a high level, on the one hand, it shows that Frank Lampard does not know anyone, on the other hand, his ability to adjust the attack is far from enough.
Basically, what Frank Lampard made when he was in charge at Chelsea, Gerrard pasted and copied the full version.
More crucially, Villa owners Saveris and Edens are no different from Abou, and their patience with the manager is limited.
Villa want to go to Europe, not fight for relegation.
So after the big defeat to Fulham, Gerrard was fired.
The root cause of Gerrard's firing is his lack of coaching ability.
And Villa's performance in the next 4-0 victory over Wolves shows that on the one hand, Gerrard's Jianglang is exhausted, and on the other hand, his unpopularity.
In the short term, it is difficult for Gerrard to have another chance to manage a Premier League team, and he may not have the good fortune of Frank Lampard's layoff at Everton.
Second, Emery's coaching style and his successful track record are the reasons why the Villa hierarchy takes a fancy to him.
Now when we think of Emery, two things come to mind.
First, he won the Europa League magically when he was in charge of Sevilla and Villarreal.
Second, his success in coaching Paris and Arsenal was less successful.
In a way, Emery is the Spanish version of Conte, but unlike Conte, Emery seems to be better at playing cups.
But what makes Emery speechless is that the direct reason for his dismissal in Paris and Arsenal is because of the unsatisfactory results in European competition.
How to make a trade-off between the league and European competition is a topic that Emery needs to face, which is actually directly related to Emery's long-term coaching of small and medium-sized balls.
For Villa, they fancy Unai Emery because of his jack-of-all-trades coaching style and his track record of success.
Because Emery is not a dogmatic coach, Emery is relatively more individualized and flexible than the two Spaniards who have succeeded in the Premier League, Pep Guardiola and Arteta.
Basically, Emery has not shown his talent as one of Europe's most underrated managers outside the Spanish league, and a big reason is his poor English.
Unailed was a very important candidate before Manchester United looked at Ten Hach, but Emery's snort of Spanish English made Alexander-Arnold finally back down.
Hopefully, Vera will have a good translator for Emery.
It's just that the most immediate advantage now is that because of the arrival of Emery, Coutinho will definitely be played, because from the story of Lo Celso, we can gain insight.
Coutinho's Barca experience left him without any language barrier with Unai Emery.
It is estimated that this is also the important original intention of the Vera senior management to choose Emery.
Third, although Villa is indeed an underrated team, even if Emery is only eight fights high, it still cannot change the attributes of Villa's mid-table team, because the competition in the Premier League is too fierce.
FROM REAL VILLA TO ASTON VILLA, IT IS ALL FATE.
After the Saudi consortium bought Newcastle last season, Emery was their first choice for manager, but Emery chose to decline due to Newcastle's line-up problems.
And now Newcastle's strong goal in BIG6 must have stimulated Emery a lot, and he believes he has missed a chance to prove himself to Arsenal.
And now Villa is another godsend, because Villa is the most complete and underrated team after Newcastle, and their choice of Gerrard is indeed a mistake, because the young managers in England, except for Eddie. Howe, there are really few reliable ones.
Now in the Villa formation, there is Damian in the back. Argentina like Martinez is in the national arena, with Brazilian midfielders like Coutinho in front of them, and stalwarts like Mins and Ince, they have considerable potential to make it to Europe.
Emery's success at Huangdian was largely due to the arrival of midfielders Parejo, Capoue, Lo Celso and goalscorer Danjuma.
So when Emery arrives at Villa, he will definitely make Latin reinforcements to the midfield.
In the future, Villa will definitely win a double harvest of results and ornamentation with strong defense, detail-oriented offensive and defensive balance, and resolute and fast forward play.
To be honest, Emery is indeed lucky for the fans to be in the Premier League.
Because he is truly the most underrated manager in Europe.
Villa's next back-to-back games against Manchester United are full of highlights.
But overall, although Villa is indeed an underrated team, although Emery is only eight high, it still cannot change the attributes of Villa's mid-table team in the short term, because the competition in the Premier League is too fierce.