Journalist Fabrizio Romano exclusively informs GIVEMESPORT that Unai Emery, the manager of Aston Villa, is “very happy” with the club and that, in the midst of a great season at Villa Park, he would “never” talk with another team.
The Villans are having a fantastic 2023–24 season. They have advanced to the Europa Conference League semifinals, where they will play Olympiacos over two legs next month, and they have placed themselves in a position to qualify for the Champions League the following season.
Being able to turn Villa from a bottom-half also-ran team to one of the best teams in the division has made Emery a strong candidate for the Premier League’s Manager of the Season title. The titans of the second city want to maintain their outstanding run with the head coach.
Emery’s impressive tenure at Aston Villa
Emery has enjoyed a fantastic 18 months at Aston Villa, having taken over as head coach from Steven Gerrard in October 2022. At the time, the Villans were struggling towards the bottom of the Premier League and facing relegation back to the Championship, having been in the second tier as recently as 2019.
However, a brief upturn in results before an unprecedented break for the 2022 World Cup ensured that Emery had enough time to get his vision across to the players at his disposal. Despite a relatively quiet winter transfer window, Villa would go on an incredible run of form which saw them secure a seventh placed Premier League finish and qualification for next season’s Europa Conference League.