{"id":154566,"date":"2025-09-23T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154566\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:32:09","slug":"aston-villas-head-of-football-operations-to-be-axed-as-key-unai-emery-ally-loses-job-after-clubs-worst-start-to-season-in-28-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154566\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa&#8217;s head of football operations to be axed as key Unai Emery ally loses job after club&#8217;s worst start to season in 28 YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-201\/tom-collomosse.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TOM COLLOMOSSE, FOOTBALL REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:36 EDT, 22 September 2025   |  Updated:  17:36 EDT, 22 September 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/aston-villa\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1772fd10-97fc-11f0-b64e-01cb14e82c75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a>&#8216;s troubled start to the season is set to see the exit of transfer chief Monchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hired two years ago as the club\u2019s \u2018president of football operations\u2019, Monchi \u2013 full name Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo \u2013 has been a key ally of boss <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/unai-emery\/index.html\" id=\"mol-17763160-97fc-11f0-b64e-01cb14e82c75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unai Emery<\/a> as Villa qualified for the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/champions_league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-17767f80-97fc-11f0-b64e-01cb14e82c75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Champions League<\/a> in 2024 and then reached the quarter-finals of the competition last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet during Monchi\u2019s\u00a0tenure, Villa\u2019s record in the market is mixed. They have sold well, banking about \u00a3130million for Jhon Duran, Jacob Ramsey and Jaden Philogene. But they have spent heavily on players like Amadou Onana, Ian Maatsen and Donyell Malen, none of whom have established themselves as first-team regulars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fa64f05fc2f74024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/102359859-15123839-image-a-39_1758576567898.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Aston Villa's troubled start to the season is set to see the exit of transfer chief Monchi\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Aston Villa&#8217;s troubled start to the season is set to see the exit of transfer chief Monchi<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This summer, Villa were hamstrung by UEFA spending rules that meant they were able to make only two permanent signings \u2013 Evann Guessand, Marco Bizot and free agent Victor Lindelof \u2013 at a cost of about \u00a330m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The wage bill has also grown significantly, though Villa also inherited other well-paid players Emery did not rate highly, such as Philippe Coutinho, Leander Dendoncker and Diego Carlos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Monchi, 57, returns to Spain regularly when Villa\u2019s schedule allows and his reputation remains strong in La Liga thanks to his two spells as sporting director at Sevilla, which brought 10 major trophies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emery\u2019s side will seek their first win in any competition this season when they take on Bologna in the Europa League on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Aston Villa&#8217;s head of football operations to be axed as key Unai Emery ally loses job after club&#8217;s worst start to season in 28 YEARS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By TOM COLLOMOSSE, FOOTBALL REPORTER Published: 17:36 EDT, 22 September 2025 | Updated: 17:36 EDT, 22 September 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2604,1669,97,218,640,217,101,56,2947,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-154566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-unai-emery","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}