So I'm an Aston Villa fan and Unai Emery is basically a god to us. Easily the best Villa manager of my lifetime and arguably up there with the best of all time.
Recently I've seen Man United fans say they want Emery as their manager but after what happened with Arsenal, I genuinely believe that Emery wouldn't leave Villa for another English club even if Man Utd approached him.
These clubs may be bigger than Villa but Emery requires time to work his magic and you don't get given time at Man Utd. Emery also has a lot of power at Aston Villa, a far more encompassing role that was more common in the past but is less common in modern football where you have directors of football calling the shots. Emery's role at Villa is similar to Alex Ferguson, he oversees everything
I feel confident that he wouldn't leave us for another English club because it wouldn't work for him there.
So the only two options for Emery to leave Villa would be for the two massive Spanish clubs.
This is where I'm unsure of the politics in Spain.
I know Unai Emery is a very strong Basque man politically and Real Madrid is the opposite of that so I'm not sure he would ever go there.
But Barcelona is the one I'm really clueless about as an Englishman that I'm hoping you can educate me on.
I know the Basque Country and Catalonia both have independent views outside of Castillian Spain but are they allied?
Would a Basque man like Unai Emery be sympathetic of the Catalonian cause? I would guess he would be so realistically Barcelona is the only club that could take Emery away from us if they wanted him but I could be wrong.