00:00Good afternoon from Villa Park where it's been the press conferences after the drama of the two days before obviously all change at Villa Park in terms of the recruitment team, Monchi departing, Roberto Olabe coming in as president of football operations and the message from Unai Emery today, head of tomorrow night's Europa League opener against Bologna, it is very much business as usual, a smoother transition with Monchi leaving.
00:30He's been working by mutual consent after just over two years in the role and Olabe who Emery knows well coming in, Emery very positive about that appointment and he was also asked about his own future or kind of asked about his own future because there were reports in Spain earlier this week that he might be about to walk out of the club and he pretty much laughed off that speculation, literally laughed off that speculation and in fact barely didn't address it.
00:56The message is that everything is good, everything is normal, all Villa needs is a few results, obviously winless in their first six games of the season but Unai Emery confident they are on the right track, he feels he's seen improvements and that there will be positivity around the corner, he hopes that that will come tomorrow against Bologna in the Europa League.
01:17Obviously Emery a four-time Europa League winner, boy does he need this tournament, this competition which has given him so much glory to give his team a bit of a lift.
01:27We also heard from Esri Konza who was asked about Unai Emery's comments the other day when he described the players as being lazy at Sunderland in the way they defended Sunderland's goal and Esri Konza basically said that's fair comment, everybody's seen the pictures, the players standing around allowing the header to come back into the box.
01:44Konza also said that he doesn't feel this is the time for crisis meetings or it's too early to talk about crisis meetings or anything like that, certainly the message from Villa is that look, we're not far off, it's going to take one goal, one result to turn things around and hopefully we'll find out tomorrow night whether they're right or not.
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