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

[villa for life]

You want a better goalkeeper than Emi?

Err yes, obviously

[villa for life]

Also, we’ve just bought a nippy winger.

No we haven’t

[Somniloquism]

You want a better goalkeeper than Emi?

Err yes, obviously

So we don't want a world cup / Copa America winning keeper who has won the Yevin awards for the last two years BECAUSE he cried in the last home match of the season?

[villa for life]

Don’t get the thing about crying.

A lot of people have wom awards and been elected for stuff but are not all that…

[Olneythelonely]

You want a better goalkeeper than Emi?

Err yes, obviously

Fuck me, they’re all out this evening.

Sunday blues?

[villa for life]

Don’t settle. Aim high. No need to conform and be a sheep.

[PaulWinch again]

No need to conform and be a sheep sounds pretty MAGA.

[Somniloquism]

So yes, we should immediatley sell all players who show one ounce of emotion. Nice to know where you stand.

He might win the awards like a world cup winners medal because he produced a stunning save a few seconds from full time and then stopped France scoring penalties, but you know someone who once won an award who wasn't all that. Also nice to know.

[PaulWinch again]

He had an average season last year, but there’s no reason he’s not an absolutely top keeper.

[paul_e]

No need to be a sheep is pretty much the mantra of conspiracy theorists everywhere and, like you, they're also wrong to think that having a different opinion is more important than having a good one.

[villa for life]

Martínez is ok.

Ramsdale was also ok. He didn’t “need” replacing.

But Arteta was ruthless and brought in Raya. There were a few weeks of tearful sentimentality, tv camera panning to ramsdale ..  of “how could Arteta be so cruel..?” But  eventually nobody with a football brain could deny it didn’t work out.

We now need to do the same. We cannot have a goalkeeper who was mediocre for much of the season and then committed the gravest of errors in the most important of games. (The last one of the season)

Yes…  before anyone says it, he may have won awards, but that wasn’t for playing for Villa and in  any case that was then and this is now. Grealish was also amazing in the past but I wouldn’t want him back.

The fact that no other club has pushed that  hard to get Martínez  says something

If he does stay, I’m hoping he has a new found humility and knuckles down. He needs to. And I’d loved to see him back at his best. Same goes for Leon Bailey who was undeniably fantastic one season.

There’s a debate over Watkins, McGinn, Ramsey so yes, those with a keen unbiased analytical eye will also pay attention to the goalkeeping position.

 I personally have a soft spot for Ramsey and I would be dead against him ever leaving, and I understand many feel that way towards Martínez. I’m just not one of them. Just an opinion x

[PaulWinch again]

An opinion is fine, implying you’re somehow insightful and that anyone who differs is a sheep is the issue.

[dave.woodhall]

He had an average season by his standards. I can't remember anyone saying Ramsdale was the best in the world.

[villa for life]

But it’s obviously not ok to have an opinion because you can see the initial reaction…

[paul_e]

But it’s obviously not ok to have an opinion because you can see the initial reaction…

The thing about opinions is that people don't have to agree with them.