Emi Martinez

[Risso]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

[LeeB]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

[darren woolley]

There will be interested clubs looking at Emi in the summer because he's a brilliant keeper I would like to think we would turn clubs interests away.

[Percy McCarthy]

When Hull based beat combo wrote their hit song "The Caravan of Love", they were surely kidding around.

I lived in Kansas for the best part of a decade, and you don't want to see a Trailer Park after a Tornado has ripped through it.

Isley Brothers mate.

[dave.woodhall]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

Plus Gray and McInally, and arguably Yorke.

[PaulWinch again]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

Nope.

[Lastfootstamper]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

Plus Gray and McInally, and arguably Yorke.

Those are all really, really long ago. Even Yorke was a quarter of a century back.

[Risso]

When Hull based beat combo wrote their hit song "The Caravan of Love", they were surely kidding around.

I lived in Kansas for the best part of a decade, and you don't want to see a Trailer Park after a Tornado has ripped through it.

Isley Brothers mate.

When Hull based beat combo wrote their hit song "The Caravan of Love", they were surely kidding around.

I lived in Kansas for the best part of a decade, and you don't want to see a Trailer Park after a Tornado has ripped through it.

When Cincinnati based vocal group The Isley Brothers wrote their hit song…

New Jersey based Isley-Jasper-Isley to be even more precise. They left Cincinnati many years earlier,.

[LeeB]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

Plus Gray and McInally, and arguably Yorke.

Gray yes, a bit before my time. McInally though? We had a better season no doubt but I reckon we'd have won that league with him up top, and half of what we got for him went on Adrian Heath. The fact the other half went of the greatest centre half that ever does back your claim though.

We improved initially with the Yorke money but it was squandered on old players and decline soon set in.

[villa for life]

I’d say sell if he wants to go and we can get a decent price.

Where we’ve gone wrong before is we’ve split the money too many ways, which is much more of a gamble.

2 x 50 million pound players or 1 x 75 million player and a 25 million player might have had more impact than the 3 we bought with the Grealish money.

[dave.woodhall]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

Plus Gray and McInally, and arguably Yorke.

Gray yes, a bit before my time. McInally though? We had a better season no doubt but I reckon we'd have won that league with him up top, and half of what we got for him went on Adrian Heath. The fact the other half went of the greatest centre half that ever does back your claim though.

We improved initially with the Yorke money but it was squandered on old players and decline soon set in.

McInally is a weird one. He was here for two seasons, crap for all but four months yet he's still thought of as a folk hero. Getting the money we did for him was borderline grand larceny.

[LeeB]

Selling our best players to fund summer spends worked out really badly when we sold Grealish, and I don't see it turning out any better if we sold Martinez.

The only time it worked was Platty.

Plus Gray and McInally, and arguably Yorke.

Gray yes, a bit before my time. McInally though? We had a better season no doubt but I reckon we'd have won that league with him up top, and half of what we got for him went on Adrian Heath. The fact the other half went of the greatest centre half that ever does back your claim though.

We improved initially with the Yorke money but it was squandered on old players and decline soon set in.

McInally is a weird one. He was here for two seasons, crap for all but four months yet he's still thought of as a folk hero. Getting the money we did for him was borderline grand larceny.

Well he played 30 times for Bayern Munich and scored 10 goals and they won their league after signing so he can't have been all that bad.

His style was the kind that gets you off your seat and that's why he's remembered as such, a big powerful player that ran at people with the ball.

[PaulTheVillan]

I’d say sell if he wants to go and we can get a decent price.

Where we’ve gone wrong before is we’ve split the money too many ways, which is much more of a gamble.

2 x 50 million pound players or 1 x 75 million player and a 25 million player might have had more impact than the 3 we bought with the Grealish money.

This is where I am at the moment. If he wants to go, then sell. He's probably at his career peak right now, so we're in charge to get as much as possible for him.

[chrisw1]

I’d say sell if he wants to go and we can get a decent price.

Where we’ve gone wrong before is we’ve split the money too many ways, which is much more of a gamble.

2 x 50 million pound players or 1 x 75 million player and a 25 million player might have had more impact than the 3 we bought with the Grealish money.

Firstly, we're not geting £100m for a keeper.

Secondly, the first £35m or so has to go on a replacement keeper - and we're paying a premium price as the seller knows we're desperate.

So if we sell for £70m ish, we may have a profit of £35 ish to improve the team.  Are we so strapped with FFP that this would make a tangible difference?  With our net spend over the last two seasons I just can't see how it would.

Other than Martinez downing tools I just can't see any way that selling him is to our advantage with where we want to be.  We should be looking at Newcastle and thinking 'why can't we do that?'  Their owners should be mostly irrelevant at this point as we have the same FFP restrictions and their income shouldn't be dramatically more than ours.

[Footy-Vill]

Of our goalkeepers I wonder if Emery is daring enough to put in one of these and build them to become first choice if Martinez left in summer

Sinisalo 21 , Filip Marschall 19, Zych 18.

I believe we will get an experienced goalkeeper, but there should be paths for all of our players. But it's more difficult with goalkeepers however they would perhaps be more suited to possession and playing ball with feet than older keepers.