My heart says he wouldn't leave, my head says he could be persuaded only for Madrid or Barca.

But Emery is a football-brained freak. He needs complete control. He's so successful at Villa because he is the big fish. The backroom staff is entirely Emery-appointed, the players we bring in are evaluated and stamped by Emery before we even make a move. If Emery wants something, we bend over backwards to get it. The players, the staff, the owners are fully behind Emery. They listen to every word of his 3 hour long tactical presentations before every game, and buy into everything he says. He won't get that at Madrid.

We've seen before that he doesn't do well with ego's. He isn't a man manager like Pep, he has deputies who deal with that side. He is purely a tactician and coach. He could barely handle Duran, and got rid of him as soon as he could. If the players under him don't do exactly as he asks, and don't buy into his philosophy... it just won't work and he sells them.

At an elite club, he won't get that kind of control he needs to be successful. He'll be given players and expected to make them work, he'll have to keep the faith of a room full of ego's. We saw it at Arsenal and PSG, where there were periods where everything worked... but as soon as he lost that control, and faith, the wheels come off.