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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15360 on: Today at 02:39:34 PM »
It’s likely Emi is off this summer, James Trafford could do with a club where he gets a starting spot. He seems a very competent keeper.
I like Trafford and he has years at the top in front of him.
But financially would there be any advantage of selling Martinez and buying Trafford?

Offline Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15361 on: Today at 02:39:41 PM »
I think quite a few will be in for him.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15362 on: Today at 02:45:46 PM »
It’s likely Emi is off this summer, James Trafford could do with a club where he gets a starting spot. He seems a very competent keeper.
I like Trafford and he has years at the top in front of him.
But financially would there be any advantage of selling Martinez and buying Trafford?


Well Emi is our top earner at the latter stages of his career. We’d probably only get £20-25M for him. Trafford might cost a little more than that and have a decade in front of him. And conceivably the future England keeper after Pickford.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15363 on: Today at 02:50:57 PM »
Wouldn't surprise me one iota if L'pool come in with a massive bid for Konsa.  >:(

Their defensive frailty is glaring.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15364 on: Today at 03:02:11 PM »
I'm glad the BBC are televising the Chelsea v Port Vale tie. It should be a less one-sided game.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15365 on: Today at 03:04:01 PM »
Ryan Cherki putting on Ekitike’s shirt while sat on the Man City bench as the game is going on. Fucking moron.


Offline Dante Lavelli

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15366 on: Today at 03:08:01 PM »
It’s likely Emi is off this summer, James Trafford could do with a club where he gets a starting spot. He seems a very competent keeper.
I like Trafford and he has years at the top in front of him.
But financially would there be any advantage of selling Martinez and buying Trafford?


There should be a saving on wages and that appears to be our biggest issue right now. Man City might even allow a loan for a season to defer the costs.  The two keepers we were linked with last summer haven’t done great at Barcelona or PSG so they could be available.  The difficulty will be finding someone to take on Emi’s £200k wages.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15367 on: Today at 03:10:53 PM »
If Emi cut his wages and restructured his contract as some players have in recent years then I’d be happy to keep him a little longer. Unai even made a comment recently about Emi being highly focused again. We still need to find a long term replacement at some point but we have a lot of other pressing issues elsewhere.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15368 on: Today at 03:14:55 PM »
It’s likely Emi is off this summer, James Trafford could do with a club where he gets a starting spot. He seems a very competent keeper.
I like Trafford and he has years at the top in front of him.
But financially would there be any advantage of selling Martinez and buying Trafford?


There should be a saving on wages and that appears to be our biggest issue right now. Man City might even allow a loan for a season to defer the costs.  The two keepers we were linked with last summer haven’t done great at Barcelona or PSG so they could be available.  The difficulty will be finding someone to take on Emi’s £200k wages.

After what we did with Elliot, I doubt many teams will be into loaning any player to us that we "promise to buy".

Online astonvilla82

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15369 on: Today at 03:18:15 PM »
Looking on TV there seemed to be a lot of empty seats, especially with one section completely sealed off behind the goal, unless it's my eye sight

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15370 on: Today at 03:20:31 PM »
It’s likely Emi is off this summer, James Trafford could do with a club where he gets a starting spot. He seems a very competent keeper.
I like Trafford and he has years at the top in front of him.
But financially would there be any advantage of selling Martinez and buying Trafford?


There should be a saving on wages and that appears to be our biggest issue right now. Man City might even allow a loan for a season to defer the costs.  The two keepers we were linked with last summer haven’t done great at Barcelona or PSG so they could be available.  The difficulty will be finding someone to take on Emi’s £200k wages.

After what we did with Elliot, I doubt many teams will be into loaning any player to us that we "promise to buy".

I think they would only be worried about that if we imposed conditions.

Offline Rudy65

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15371 on: Today at 03:26:05 PM »
Looking on TV there seemed to be a lot of empty seats, especially with one section completely sealed off behind the goal, unless it's my eye sight
Their new stand presumably not yet complete

Online wolfman999

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15372 on: Today at 04:29:18 PM »
Ryan Cherki putting on Ekitike’s shirt while sat on the Man City bench as the game is going on. Fucking moron.



Back to front as well. What a knob.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15373 on: Today at 04:32:53 PM »
Absolute bottle job from Freiburg, reminds me of seemingly every Villa vs Man U match for about twenty-five years.

Two-nil up against Bayern, conceded on 81, 90+2 and 90+9.

Online aj2k77

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #15374 on: Today at 04:36:58 PM »
Absolute bottle job from Freiburg, reminds me of seemingly every Villa vs Man U match for about twenty-five years.

Two-nil up against Bayern, conceded on 81, 90+2 and 90+9.

Good, Freiburg are in the Europa so we want them under confident and in shit form.

 


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