Jamie Carragher has apologised to Aston Villa over 'clumsy and wrong' words linking Unai Emery to the Manchester United job.
Unai Emery is a name African football fans know well. He coached Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nicolas Pépé at Arsenal, and now he is at the center of a row that has pulled in one of English football's loudest pundits.
Jamie Carragher has publicly apologised to Aston Villa after the club threatened legal action over comments tying Emery to the Manchester United head coach role. The former Liverpool defender admitted his language was "clumsy and wrong" and said it never should have been phrased the way it was.
Villa were clearly unhappy with how the remarks portrayed their manager, and the legal threat forced a quick response. Carragher's apology is aimed at settling things with the club and making clear that Emery had not been presented fairly.
United's managerial situation keeps generating speculation, and any strong coach is bound to be mentioned. Emery has turned Villa into a serious Premier League and European force, which is why his name keeps coming up. For now, Villa want the record corrected, and Carragher has taken a step back.
