Emi Martinez

[olaftab]

Martinez is genuinely a world class player. The first we had since, Platt?

Of course Jordan Bowery could have been.

[LeonW]

Martinez is genuinely a world class player. The first we had since, Platt?

Of course Jordan Bowery could have been.

It’s amazing how often his name keeps cropping up. It’s like there’s some sort of Jordan Bowery cult at work.

[PeterWithe]

I watched an old episode of Billy the Fish recently where Billy had been kidnapped and replaced in Fulchesters goal by a balloon with his face drawn in it.

We have some fine artists on here, could anyone draw Olsen’s face?

[Percy McCarthy]

Martinez is genuinely a world class player. The first we had since, Platt?

Of course Jordan Bowery could have been.

It’s amazing how often his name keeps cropping up. It’s like there’s some sort of Jordan Bowery cult at work.

I think he scored for somebody last week.

[TelfordVilla]

The problem is, how do you get a competent back up keeper to the worlds best. Knowing that you will rarely play (except for injury cover) and your career will be over.

[Beard82]

Martinez is genuinely a world class player. The first we had since, Platt?

God?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The problem is, how do you get a competent back up keeper to the worlds best. Knowing that you will rarely play (except for injury cover) and your career will be over.

Being in Europe and regularly getting to the latter stages of cup competitions.

[trinityoap]

According to Wikipedia(yes I know!)as at the start of April  Jordan Bowery had featured in 419 senior games and scored 67 goals if I have added things up correctly.I should have liked to have been   that good. However he is not as good as E M.

[Ian.]

The problem is, how do you get a competent back up keeper to the worlds best. Knowing that you will rarely play (except for injury cover) and your career will be over.

That’s exactly what Martinez was before we signed him.

[LukeJames]

According to Wikipedia(yes I know!)as at the start of April  Jordan Bowery had featured in 419 senior games and scored 67 goals if I have added things up correctly.I should have liked to have been   that good. However he is not as good as E M.

I've read this now about 5 or 6 times and ive gone back through previous messages to see if there is a link but I must confess I have no idea how you came to compare these two players. Top work sir.

[LeeB]

According to Wikipedia(yes I know!)as at the start of April  Jordan Bowery had featured in 419 senior games and scored 67 goals if I have added things up correctly.I should have liked to have been   that good. However he is not as good as E M.

I've read this now about 5 or 6 times and ive gone back through previous messages to see if there is a link but I must confess I have no idea how you came to compare these two players. Top work sir.

Bowery is still probably a better keeper than Olsen.

[danno]

At least we’ve moved on from worrying about him leaving.

[Monty]

With Olsen, I've seen him over the years a bit and he's never been this terrible before that I can recall. I think he's out of his depth and it's got to him psychologically.

Hutton said something in his interview about how you can't underestimate confidence as a factor, how powerful it is. With Olsen, we're seeing a perfectly OK career keeper, an international, nothing spectacular but a decent pro, basically reduced to a big jellied eel by lack of confidence.

[LeeB]

With Olsen, I've seen him over the years a bit and he's never been this terrible before that I can recall. I think he's out of his depth and it's got to him psychologically.

Hutton said something in his interview about how you can't underestimate confidence as a factor, how powerful it is. With Olsen, we're seeing a perfectly OK career keeper, an international, nothing spectacular but a decent pro, basically reduced to a big jellied eel by lack of confidence.

Do you think maybe it's the change in focus with keepers needing to be actual footballers now? Some of the older generation struggling with it, De Gea is an absolute liability as well.

[Monty]

Definitely for Olsen, Scandinavian tactical habits were stoically basic when he was coming through, and trying to play a supermodern Spanish style in 2023 looks to be giving him considerable anxiety!

For De Gea, who knows, in theory he should be good at it all. Perhaps the managerial chaos during his time at Man Utd hasn't helped - and indeed of those managers, only two (van Gaal and ten Hag, not coincidentally the two Dutchmen) would have focused any attention whatsoever on his outfield role, so he probably hasn't had the training to adapt.