A significant sporting change is unfolding at Aston Villa after a poor start to the season. After no wins from five games left them in the relegation zone in the early weeks, the club looks set to alter the structure that holds sporting power at Villa Park. Reports indicate Monchi will leave his role as president of football operations, with an agreement on a successor already reported to be in place.<\/p>\n
The Athletic first reported Monchi\u2019s imminent departure. The Spaniard is a revered recruiter, credited with building multiple Sevilla sides across two spells that dominated the Europa League. He joined Villa in 2023 at Unai Emery\u2019s request and played a role in helping the club qualify for the Champions League for the first time in decades and subsequently reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The squad has shown signs of stagnation, a situation no doubt hindered by PSR limitations and the need to stay compliant that drew the ire of frustrated fans all summer. In response, Villa have moved quickly to avoid leaving a gap at the top of the sporting hierarchy.<\/p>\n
A later report from The Athletic named Roberto Olabe as the man lined up to succeed Monchi, saying Villa have hammered out a deal with the Spaniard known for his work with Real Sociedad. Olabe, 57, left the San Sebastian club at the end of last season.<\/p>\n
Over the past seven years Olabe was involved in the buying and selling of players such as Alexander Isak, Mart\u00edn Zubimendi and Mikel Merino, while Martin \u00d8degaard also passed through in a crucial period of his career. He is additionally credited with work overseeing sporting strategy at Independiente del Valle at a time when Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, Piero Hincapi\u00e9 and others were produced by the Ecuadorian club.<\/p>\n
Club officials are reported to be moving to implement the change quickly. For now, Aston Villa face the immediate challenge of reversing early-season results while the club\u2019s sporting leadership is reconfigured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monchi poised to leave Aston Villa; reports say Roberto Olabe has been lined up as successor. Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[711],"tags":[195,1047],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aston-villa","tag-alexander-isak","tag-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}