The official announcement! Europa League 4 champions renewed his contract to stay in the team, the Gunners and Gunners pointed to the Champions League, and Bayern failed to poach
On the evening of April 23, Beijing time, according to the official announcement of the English Premier League team Aston Villa, the team officially renewed the contract with the coach until 2027, and the 52-year-old Spanish coach will continue to show his strength at Villa Park;
Unai Emery became a first-team manager in 2004 and led Almeria back to La Liga in 2006 and managed to avoid relegation the following year, in 2008 Emery was appreciated by Valencia and took charge of Valencia in 2008/09, leading them to a third-place finish in La Liga three times during his four seasons with the Bats and to Champions League promotion, and in 10/11 he led Valen to a team's best start with five wins in the first six games after selling Villa and David Silva.
Then in 2013, he began to coach Sevilla, Emery led Sevilla to complete three consecutive victories in the Europa League, and Sevilla began to be the "King of the Europa League"; outstanding results also made Emery appreciated by Grand Paris, in the summer of 2016, Emery took office in Grand Paris, led the team to win 7 trophies in 3 years, including 1 Ligue 1 and 2 French Cups. In the summer of 2018, after Arsene Wenger's departure, Unai Emery was appointed as the Gunners' new manager, and after a year and four months in charge, he was replaced by Mikel Arteta due to poor results.
In 2020-21, Emery led the team to a 19-game unbeaten streak in the league, Europa League and Copa del Rey before winning the Europa League final against Inter Milan to win the Europa League for the first time since the team's founding, and he also won the Europa League four times, becoming the manager with the most Europa League titles. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the 21-22 season, Emery led the team to defeat Bayern in an upset, tying the best Champions League result in the history of the Yellow Submarine.
In October 2022, former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was sacked by Villa due to poor results in leading the team, and Unai Emery will also start coaching Villa in the Premier League, Emery changed the team's decline and helped Villa regain European qualification after 13 years. This season, Villa's results have rebounded strongly, and they are currently fourth in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, occupying the initiative in the Champions League and reaching the semi-finals of the Europa League, which is the only team left in the Premier League this season that is still competing in Europe. This season they have also beaten Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City and Arsenal twice. It is worth mentioning that since Emery took office, he has led the team to a record of 35 wins, 10 draws and 14 losses in 59 Premier League games, winning 115 Premier League points, second only to Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool in the same period, with a very strong performance.
Bayern are actively looking for a manager as Thomas Tuchel is set to step down at the end of the season, but Nagelsmann has renewed his contract with Germany, and this time Emery has stayed in the Premier League, leaving Bayern with few replacements. According to Fabrizio Romano, Rangnick, who was the manager of Manchester United last season, and Brighton manager De Zerbi are the few options left.