Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[AV84]

Because it wouldn't b

Yes, I looked him up just after I posted it and realised they'd only just bought him. Still, as someone else pointed out, there's plenty of keepers having great seasons that I'd never paid any attention to before. I don't think Martinez is irreplaceable, the only problem is goalkeeper isn't a position you can mess around with, or ease someone into the league. With Olsen going too, we really need to get it right first time.

Because it wouldn't be as bad if Olsen stayed.

Well yes. If we sign a new keeper and he's shit, we would at least have a very experienced keeper who is familiar with the league, his team mates and the way we play. If Olsen is gone and the new keeper is shit, we've got.... Zych.

[Steve67]

Fuck me ramsdale, spurs second choice keeper. 

You guys aren’t making me feel any better about this

Yes, we should never, ever sign reserve players, especially, Arsenal keepers :-)

[Lsvilla]

Because it wouldn't b

Yes, I looked him up just after I posted it and realised they'd only just bought him. Still, as someone else pointed out, there's plenty of keepers having great seasons that I'd never paid any attention to before. I don't think Martinez is irreplaceable, the only problem is goalkeeper isn't a position you can mess around with, or ease someone into the league. With Olsen going too, we really need to get it right first time.

Because it wouldn't be as bad if Olsen stayed.

Well yes. If we sign a new keeper and he's shit, we would at least have a very experienced keeper who is familiar with the league, his team mates and the way we play. If Olsen is gone and the new keeper is shit, we've got.... Zych.

What are the chances we sign a keeper that's shirt. Our recruitment team is as good as any at the moment I think.

[Exeter 77]

Haven't we still got Gauci?

[AV84]

Because it wouldn't b

Yes, I looked him up just after I posted it and realised they'd only just bought him. Still, as someone else pointed out, there's plenty of keepers having great seasons that I'd never paid any attention to before. I don't think Martinez is irreplaceable, the only problem is goalkeeper isn't a position you can mess around with, or ease someone into the league. With Olsen going too, we really need to get it right first time.

Because it wouldn't be as bad if Olsen stayed.

Well yes. If we sign a new keeper and he's shit, we would at least have a very experienced keeper who is familiar with the league, his team mates and the way we play. If Olsen is gone and the new keeper is shit, we've got.... Zych.

What are the chances we sign a keeper that's shirt. Our recruitment team is as good as any at the moment I think.

If you read my first post you'll see the point I'm making it that Martinez is not irreplaceable but replacing a keeper is more difficult than replacing a player in a different position. You can give outfield players time to adapt and bed in because you can play someone else, or change formations or tactics to allow it. A goal keeper needs to hit the ground running from day one. And if we are losing both 1st and 2nd choice keepers this summer, then we really need to get this one right.

[Beard82]

I think the problem is no recruitment is perfect - and gk are difficult to replace.

When you see the difference in the team when Olsen is in goal v emi you can see the risk. 

I’m sure we’ll get a good replacement but the will be a downgrade and good GKs are hard to find. 

[pauliewalnuts]

I think the problem is no recruitment is perfect - and gk are difficult to replace.

When you see the difference in the team when Olsen is in goal v emi you can see the risk. 

Monchi recruited Olsen at Roma. Just saying, like.

[robleflaneur]

The three relegated clubs towards the end had competent  keepers but shit defenders,midfield and attackers in front of them.
If we've got a fairly injury free defence and likewise a midfield trio of Onana,Kamara and Tielemans,a goalie similar,but preferably better ,to those at Brighton,Brentford and Bournemouth,would be good enough for us to lift silverware and conquer Europe or Croydon.

[Mister E]

The key to bringing in a new keeper is to do it early in the summer; give them time to bed in properly.
Maybe Martinez is our pre 30th June sale, so we just need to line up a replacement for purchased on July 2nd ... Mads Hermansen from Lester should do it.

[LeeB]

No, don't be looking at keepers that have made a few saves in teams that are getting peppered, we can a a bit higher than that.

[PeterWithe]

Player I thought there might be interest in and there would be more speculation about is Alex Baena at Villareal, seems a younger cheaper version of Asensio and ticks all the boxes for a player a team like us would want, not in the top tier but well capable of getting there. Always surprised that UE hasn't bought more players he's worked with before.

[LeeB]

Player I thought there might be interest in and there would be more speculation about is Alex Baena at Villareal, seems a younger cheaper version of Asensio and ticks all the boxes for a player a team like us would want, not in the top tier but well capable of getting there. Always surprised that UE hasn't bought more players he's worked with before.

I read he was off somewhere recently but I can't remember who it was.

[PeterWithe]

He turned down a move to Saudi in Jan.

[Dave]

Think there was talk of him being off to Atletico in the summer.

[PeterWithe]

A Google seems to indicate him making fluttery eyelashes & coy glances toward Barcelona.

https://theanalyst.com/2025/03/alex-baena-is-spains-playmaking-anomaly

Interesting, though not surprising, to see where Rogers is in that graph. Interesting, though very surprising, to see where Alex Iwobi is. Although I think he got a very bad press at Everton.