Amongst the legends

"We're creating something special here. More than the capacity to buy everything we want."

Unai Emery.

Unai Emery has done many great things for Aston Villa, and has done many great things in a great many ways, but his overriding hold on Villa is his ability, almost from day one, to completely 'get' the fans and our relationship with the club.

When he speaks, we listen, which makes his latest quote all the more remarkable.

Tuning into the current concern around the deeply unfair Premier League rules, the greed of Manchester City, the diatribes from the likes of Tottenham, and the wilful disdain for the club's achievements by the media.

Unai has managed to say something that has so much resonance on so many levels, that encapsulates the current anger, but importantly sets us and our approach apart from any other club without even a shred of bitterness. We are a unique club; we always have been.

Unai is on the verge of becoming the physical embodiment of that. Amongst the legends, he's beginning to breakaway.

The Great Villa Quotes: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/quotes