{"id":81117,"date":"2025-09-23T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:55:08","slug":"why-monchi-really-left-aston-villa-and-unai-emerys-thoughts-on-roberto-olabe-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81117\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Monchi really left Aston Villa and Unai Emery’s thoughts on Roberto Olabe revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TBR Football understands that Unai Emery is delighted with the possible appointment of Roberto Olabe as Aston Villa\u2019s new sporting director.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monchi is set to leave Villa<\/a> following a two-year stint as the club\u2019s president of football operations, which has yielded promising results.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard, alongside Unai Emery<\/a>, played a key role in helping Villa return to playing Champions League football.<\/p>\n

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But now, the former Sevilla and Roma director is leaving Villa Park and Olabe is set to be the man who replaces him.<\/p>\n

\"RealPhoto credit should read RAFA RIVAS\/AFP via Getty ImagesSources: Aston Villa have been working on Roberto Olabe for \u2018several weeks\u2019<\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> have been working on the appointment of Roberto Olabe for \u2018several weeks\u2019 and Monchi has been helping in that process, sources have told TBR Football\u2019s<\/strong> chief correspondent, Graeme Bailey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Arsenal were linked with Olabe<\/a> when attempting to replace Edu Gaspar, but the former Real Sociedad man is now heading to the Midlands.<\/p>\n

Bailey told TBR Football<\/strong>: \u201cSources have confirmed that Aston Villa have been working on Roberto Olabe for several weeks, and I am told that Monchi played some part in identifying his successor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monchi<\/a> is believed to be leaving the Premier League on good terms, and his decision has nothing to do with recent results. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere has not been a huge fallout with Monchi; he remains on good terms with the club and the owners, evidenced by this,\u201d added Bailey.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonchi\u2019s reasoning for leaving is being put down to \u2018personal reasons\u2019, but he has made it clear that he was hugely happy with Villa and believed in the project, and still does.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am told that Unai Emery is delighted to have landed Olabe, who was in contention to replace Edu at Arsenal before they went with Andrea Berta.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a high-quality appointment by Villa and one which is going to see a smooth transition from Monchi. It shows Villa still mean business off the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monchi\u2019s best signings at Aston Villa<\/p>\n

Monchi made some excellent signings during his time at Villa Park, who played key roles in helping Villa return to Europe.<\/p>\n

Villa signing Rogers for \u00a38m<\/a> from Middlesbrough in February 2024 was undoubtedly his best signing as president.<\/p>\n\nPlayers<\/td>\nFee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMorgan Rogers<\/td>\n\u00a38.2m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMarco Asensio<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPau Torres<\/td>\n\u00a328.8m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nYouri Tielemans<\/td>\nFree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAmadou Onana<\/td>\n\u00a351.7m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monchi\u2019s best signings at Aston Villa (Transfermarkt<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Rogers is now valued at \u00a3100m by Villa<\/a> and is being chased by many top Premier League clubs, including Chelsea and Tottenham.<\/p>\n

Marco Asensio was another shock Villa signing<\/a> as they signed him on loan from PSG, and the Spaniard proved to be a real coup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBR Football understands that Unai Emery is delighted with the possible appointment of Roberto Olabe as Aston Villa\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[4699,18,2306,19,17,54464,54465,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-81117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-english-premier-league","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-monchi","14":"tag-roberto-olabe","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}