He guided Aston Villa to fourth in the Premier League in his first full season and took them to the Champions League quarter-finals last term.
Yet in his fourth year in charge at Villa Park, Unai Emery is putting together a masterpiece to rival anything he has achieved since taking over in autumn 2022. Boubacar Kamara’s brilliant second-half strike briefly put them third in the table ahead of Chelsea’s meeting with Arsenal.
Beating winless Wolves at home might not seem that much but this was the seventh victory in eight league games – a remarkable achievement in the context of what happened in the summer and during the early part of the campaign.