Emi Martinez

[Axl Rose]

Can't say I'm surprised really. He's probably the highest profile GK in the world right now and we havent exactly shown any ambition in the transfer market to convince him he can achieve things here.

This. Our January ambition was rubbish.

[Risso]

Didn’t take long for our unambitious chickens to come to roost.

[Clampy]

The good thing is we showed him in January we are full of ambition…

Thats just bitter nonsense really isn't it? It's pretty obvious that Emery was satisfied with what he had in January, he's said as much himself. I think Martinez would have most likely said the same thing  in that interview however active we had been in January.

[Risso]

The good thing is we showed him in January we are full of ambition…

Thats just bitter nonsense really isn't it? It's pretty obvious that Emery was satisfied with what he had in January, he's said as much himself. I think Martinez would have most likely said the same thing  in that interview however active we had been in January.

So you’re imagining what Martinez might have said and accused another poster of nonsense on the back of it? Despite Martinez literally just having said the exact opposite? OK then…

[Clampy]

No, I think he still would have said he wanted Champions League football in that interview regardless of what we did in January. The January transfer window I doubt played much of part in his thinking. What we do in the summer might though.

[Risso]

Emery might have been happy with his lot, although I have my doubts after he'd spoken of the need for a winger so much. But he's just left a smaller club in Spain to come here, so is on the up. Martinez has just won the World Cup, and needs to see that the club's ambitions match his own, which they very clearly don't.

[Clampy]

My point is, if for the sake of argument PSG or Bayern come in for him, he'll be tempted to go and you couldn't blame him but it wouldnt be because we only signed two players last month.

[Goldenballs]

Martínez: “But it’s complicated.. we were eliminated from the FA Cup in January. You should never lose hope. We’ll see what happens. I have the feeling that today I have a level to play the Champions League & try to win it..”

Pissing away the cups was a great idea.

[Risso]

Martínez: “But it’s complicated.. we were eliminated from the FA Cup in January. You should never lose hope. We’ll see what happens. I have the feeling that today I have a level to play the Champions League & try to win it..”

Pissing away the cups was a great idea.

Yep, that still rankles. Playing that no hoper Olsen was madness.

[N'ZMAV]

£100mil please

[PeterWithe]

Would he want to go play in France? I’d imagine that the post WC unpleasantness might at least rule out one of the clubs able to afford him.

[Clampy]

Emery might have been happy with his lot, although I have my doubts after he'd spoken of the need for a winger so much. But he's just left a smaller club in Spain to come here, so is on the up. Martinez has just won the World Cup, and needs to see that the club's ambitions match his own, which they very clearly don't.

Regarding the winger he was after, I'd guess that who he wanted wasn't available so he looked at how many games we had left and decided to leave it until the summer and brought Bert back in for now. I think that's sensible if that was the case.

[john e]

ooh that’s a shocker world-class goalkeeper wants to play in the Champions League and compete for trophies
who’d have thought

[Beard82]

I think it’s more than just the Jan window - the cups didnt help and he said as much.  Maybe it’s not just the fans that would like us to win something.

I think the issue is we have stagnated since Joe left.  No one takes us as seriously like they suddenly took Newcastle.  We haven’t done our talking on the pitch.  Or off it to be honest.  We seem to have tried to take the cheap option too often and it hasn’t worked.  I think they thought that SG was an elite manager in making so a cheat code to get there while raising the profile.

Our net spend since Joe left has to be towards the bottom end of the spectrum, and we’re waiting for good value as well as good players.

I’m not saying any individual decision was wrong (apart from SG which was clearly a stupid idea) but as a body of work we don’t have any tangible progress to show - apart from now having a top manager

Hopefully we’re on the right track with Nas and Emery seemingly to be running the show - but I think it all comes too late for Emi

[Risso]

Hopefully we’re on the right track with Nas and Emery seemingly to be running the show - but I think it all comes too late for Emi

They're apparently the 4th or 5th richest owners in the Premier League, but we really don't go at it any differently to anybody else in the bottom half. They're solid and dependable, but I don't think they're ever going to push the boat out for a proper crack at the top 6. This January was partly a sign of that.