2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[AV84]

There didn’t have to be no drop of in quality from Martinez.

There just needs to be someone who doesn’t have crisp bags for hands like Olsen does.

Steer would have been a better option, even.

Not as bad as the current guy shouldn't be our recruitment policy, in my opinion. I'd rather hang on until January if that meant signing someone of a high standard. And ideally there should be as little drop off as possible from your first choice keeper to your second choice, which is difficult to achieve, but other clubs have done it, and I'd rather wait and spend money well than buy anyone at all just to get Olsen out of the way.

[pauliewalnuts]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

[pauliewalnuts]

There didn’t have to be no drop of in quality from Martinez.

There just needs to be someone who doesn’t have crisp bags for hands like Olsen does.

Steer would have been a better option, even.

Not as bad as the current guy shouldn't be our recruitment policy, in my opinion. I'd rather hang on until January if that meant signing someone of a high standard. And ideally there should be as little drop off as possible from your first choice keeper to your second choice, which is difficult to achieve, but other clubs have done it, and I'd rather wait and spend money well than buy anyone at all just to get Olsen out of the way.

Better than the current guy should be it.

The level of Olsen is so laughably poor, that shouldn’t even be that difficult.

[danno]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

Are we not allowed an emergency loan in that scenario?

[KevinGage]

Does Emery really see something in Olsen that everyone else misses?

There were links earlier in the window with one of the younger keepers at Yanited.

Maybe it's a case of Emery publicly backing in Olsen (in case we need him between now and the end of the window) and privately working like stink to move him on. 

[pauliewalnuts]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

Are we not allowed an emergency loan in that scenario?

Why would we be allowed that?

On the basis our second choice keeper is shit and the first choice is out?

[AV84]

Better than the current guy should be it.

The level of Olsen is so laughably poor, that shouldn’t even be that difficult.

I don't think we should be using Olsen as the criteria for the new keeper at all. The thinking should be how much do we suffer if Martinez is out, and can he challenge Martinez for the 1 shirt in a season or so. If we can't bring in someone like that this window then I don't see what difference bringing in someone slightly better than Olsen will make.

[danno]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

Are we not allowed an emergency loan in that scenario?

Why would we be allowed that?

On the basis our second choice keeper is shit and the first choice is out?

I thought we got Reina in similar circumstances.
Although it’s probably more because Heaton got injured in January

[VillaTim]

Emery has a couple of blind spots it seems - back up  keeper, nr 9, RB

[Gareth]

Emery has a couple of blind spots it seems - back up  keeper, nr 9, RB

Perhaps wait till window shuts first?

[olaftab]

Emery has a couple of blind spots it seems - back up  keeper, nr 9, RB

Make your mind up, is it 2 or 3?

[olaftab]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

No, honestly no. Martinez is not as great as we make him and Olsen is not as bad as we seem to suggest on here. We are ok in goal keeping positions. A very good number 1 and a good back up as good as almost all other teams except maybe 2/3.

[PaulWinch again]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

No, honestly no. Martinez is not as great as we make him and Olsen is not as bad as we seem to suggest on here. We are ok in goal keeping positions. A very good number 1 and a good back up as good as almost all other teams except maybe 2/3.

Sorry again that’s just not true. Martinez is exceptionally important to the - it’s not just his ability, but it is very evident that the defence loses confidence when he doesn’t play.

[Steve67]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

No, honestly no. Martinez is not as great as we make him and Olsen is not as bad as we seem to suggest on here. We are ok in goal keeping positions. A very good number 1 and a good back up as good as almost all other teams except maybe 2/3.

I'd rather have Martinez than almost any other keeper in the Premier League.  Part of the problem here is that there is such a wide gap between our first choice and back-up.  If only Martinez wasn't quite as good as he is would Olsen not seem to be so shit.   So, to sum up, I agree about Olsen, I don't think he's quite as bad as we suggest, but Emi is absolutely brilliant and deserves to be on that pedal-stool.

[frank black]

I feel that, should Martinez get a long term injury, that would effectively be our season over, Olsen is so poor.

No, honestly no. Martinez is not as great as we make him and Olsen is not as bad as we seem to suggest on here. We are ok in goal keeping positions. A very good number 1 and a good back up as good as almost all other teams except maybe 2/3.

Olsen is appalling. I have no clue how anyone would think otherwise. He scares the bejesus out of me, all my fellow Villa supporting friends and evidently the defenders in his own team.
But it looks like we need to priortise, so Unai is rolling the dice.