Gerard Devlin 🪣 🇮🇪

IT Geek. #AVFC Fan. #DHL. Family man with a beautiful wife, daughter and two son's

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

🎶 Emi Buendía, from Argentina 🎶

Every goal in the 2025/26 season from our number 10 🎯

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

An act of absolute class from Unai Emery and Aston Villa. 👏

🎥 @SkySportsPL

[John McGinn @jmcginn7]

I am floating!! I dreamed about lifting a trophy around Birmingham for 8 years but that was special!! Let’s make sure it’s not the last time Aston Villa are in centenary square!! This isn’t the end this is just the beginning!! UTV 💜💜

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

THIS, ON REPEAT. 🥹

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

44 YEARS IN THE MAKING. 🏆

[Gerard Devlin 🪣 🇮🇪 @gfdevlin]

Up the villa

[Matty Cash @mattycash622]

Champo League! Now onto Wednesday!💜💜💜

[League of Ireland @LeagueofIreland]

An absolute bullet hit by Tyreke Wilson finds the back of the Shamrock Rovers net! 🚀

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

An incredible achievement for our boss tonight 👏

Mr. Unai Emery 👑

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

✨ CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AGAIN OLE OLE ✨

[Dundalk FC @DundalkFC]

Fulltime.

WHAT. A. RESULT.

⚪️ 1-0 🟢

#CMonTheTown

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

ONE STEP CLOSER.

[Damian Vidagany @DV1874]

Unbelievable Night. Don’t stop!!!! UTV

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

There is nobody quite like Mr. Unai Emery 🙌

[Dundalk FC @DundalkFC]

What a brilliant performance!

Great win for Dundalk!

🔴 2-3 ⚪️

#CMonTheTown

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

Here's to you, Unai Emery 💜

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

When results are not going your way, it’s natural to see things through a more negative lens. Many #AstonVilla fans right now are understandably frustrated. They see a flat team, with players lacking confidence, and results are not good.

So an alternative, more positive,  perspective may not be the one they most want to hear. But here it goes

The team, limited by the finances everyone knows about which cannot be forgotten, collapsed after their regular centre midfielders got injured. But McGuinn might return for the Lille game and Tielemas for the second leg or even before. And when they do, Morgan Rogers can stop doing everything as he is trying now, and focus, which will bring a much better Rogers, #AVFC best player. 

I feel Unai Emery looks at difficulties as obstacles to beat, challenges. So his energy multiplies. He is convinced the solutions he has applied in the past, with their multiple variations, still work for this team. And so far, that way of working has worked for him at Villa

Europe will be for this next round (and I am sure more rounds) a place of excitement and success. 

That for the short and medium term. 

And for the long term… It is clear this team has given a lot, some recycling might be needed. And if that happens, I am sure Olabe/Emery have identified players, half a dozen, perhaps even more, that can come within budget, with new energy, new traits that can help the structure. It is important to play in the Champions League next season to bring those of higher quality. 

And with that, Unai will also renew his own energies and continue the adventure in Birmingham, which I am convinced is the best for him and for the club. 

Can you look at the picture from a little bit of emotional distance and apply some logic? Not easy, I know, but you have enough reasons from past experiences to trust the process

[Gerard Devlin 🪣 🇮🇪 @gfdevlin]

@GuillemBalague Mandatory reading for all villa fans IMO. General football fans with an interest in coaching excellence, give it a read 👍

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Unai Emery was down because of the long term injuries of Kamara and McGinn. He struggles to hide frustration

“Time to swim against the tide again”, was the thinking

Every detail counts, more for Villa than the rest as they are punching above their weight. So in Turkey Unai let Youri know there was something that could have been done better. In the Unai way: there and then, with passion. Nothing new, nothing Tielemans had not seen before or would not accept.

Going to Newcastle was another test, against a bench that does that have read #RiseoftheVillans know is not the most friendly.

And guess what. Yeah, the rise continues… to the envy of many

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Unai Emery should be top of any list of any top club in the world that is looking for a manager

But if you think he would leave Aston Villa now, it means you haven't properly understood what he is feeling about the work he is doing

#RiseoftheVillans