Aston Villa star Matty Cash insists there s no disrespect of Steven Gerrard but Unai Emery is on another level .
Emery replaced Gerrard in October 2022 with Villa 17th on nine points from 11 games and guided them to seventh and European football, before leading them into the Champions League in his first full season in charge.
Meanwhile, Gerrard has taken charge of Al-Ettifaq in the Saudi Pro League and taken them from seventh to sixth in his first season, .
You ve seen the stats
Villa announced earlier this week that Emery has signed a new five-year contract at the club and Cash has hailed the impact of the Spaniard, claiming he s on another level compared to his predecessor.
The defender told talkSPORT Drive: There s a lot detail that goes into it [his work]. We have so many individual and collective meetings on how you can improve.
Obviously no disrespect to Gerrard I think he was obviously a good manager and he did well at Rangers. I just think Unai is another level really. Since he s come in we ve been nothing but brilliant.
You ve seen the stats and the results that we ve had in the last year-and-a-half and it s been incredible really.
The main thing is little details that he does and he knows, just the experience helps massively.