One of the Premier League managers of the season is the Spaniard who has turned an underachieving club into a serious force again.
While it will be virtually impossible for anyone to pip Mikel Arteta as the top boss in England for making Arsenal favourites for their first Premier League title since 2004, the masterpiece his fellow Basque is delivering 115 miles to the north-west deserves greater recognition.
Because in a little more than five months at Aston Villa, Unai Emery has picked up a squad heading for relegation and made them contenders for European football.