Unai Emery is proud of his record of always having brought success to the clubs he has coached, and it riles him that after his 18-month spell at Arsenal he had only a Europa League final defeat and a few press conference compilations of him saying ‘Good Ebening’ to show for it.
Since leaving Arsenal, he has won the Europa League and reached the Champions League semi-final in his next job at Villarreal. But the Aston Villa job is a second chance to crack the Premier League.
He has never stopped trying to improve his English, still watching Peaky Blinders episodes, in case it became his working language again.