Emi Martinez

[Beard82]

With the way it works wouldn’t we be ok with the way there accounted for - ie book value of Martinez will be low so mainly profit.  Plus any new purchase would be spread over 5 years

[ChicagoLion]

With the way it works wouldn’t we be ok with the way there accounted for - ie book value of Martinez will be low so mainly profit.  Plus any new purchase would be spread over 5 years

exactly.

[Keeno]

Obviously the loan offer from United is hilarious, and they're not a serious organisation.

However while at the start of the summer, I'd been of the "do not sell at all costs" stance, I think I'd probably now be in favour of selling if we can get 40m for him as our one 'big sale' that allows us to a) go and get someone like Chevalier who is 8 years younger and will probably have been poached by another UCL club this time next year, and b) free up some funds to make 2 starting XI-level additions to the team (e.g. a RB and winger).

The wage/SCR point to me is a bonus - I think there's a reasonable footballing case for saying that he's just had his worst season (both stats-wise and eye test-wise) with us; his value from here at 32 is probably not going to go up; and we have an opportunity to potentially secure our number 1 for the next 8-10 years if we move decisively this summer.

[AV84]

They want to try and shift Onana first but he’s injured isn’t he?
The obvious solution would be a swap with Garnacho as it’s rumoured they’re valued at a similar price, however wouldn’t we still need to potentially sell another big player, or several squad players, to get to the £25m+ to cover the cost of a No1 goalie, the Lille bloke for instance?

It's not that wild a leap to think Onana being injured is why they've apparently tried to loan Martinez. They're not going to be able to shift Onana now, so possibly can't make the books balance to outright buy a new keeper.

Likewise for us, loaning out a player like that isn't really going to do us any favours, so we'd be mad to accept anything other than his full value in cash, or a swap for a similarly valued player, preferably one that we actually want.