Stuttgart were atrocious but had a striker (Guirassi) that could score goals last year - he scored 10 goals in 20something games while on loan. Their manager who did very poorly was fired around this time last year and the current guy (Sebastian Hoeness, ex-Hoffenheim, left 2022) had about 8 games and he won all but 1 to secure the relegation playoffs.I dont know enough about stuttgart or girona but emery walked into a pretty decent squad. Gerrard was just showing he was an awful manager. Emery wouldnt have done the same at Everton. The players just aren't here.
Basically a similar situation to ours with the Saviour Sean Dyche.
Sold Endo (to the RS) and Mavropanos (WHam), Sosa (Ajax) for about 50m altogether, who were their best players, bought Guirassi for 9m and loaned Undav from Brighton and a bunch of other what we would no doubt call "nobodies", that worked for the manager's ideas and gameplan, for about ~20m for all of them.
Guirassi is on more than a goal per game (25 scored in 22 games), Undav has 15 goals in 25 games, the rest just feed them, they score, currently are 3rd in the Bundesliga.
But we could only get Sean Dyche to save us and progress onwards, as no one in Europe can do this kind of thing.