{"id":30091,"date":"2025-08-31T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/man-utd-seeks-goalkeeper-emi-martinez-in-sight-villa-wants-sancho\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:13:58","slug":"man-utd-seeks-goalkeeper-emi-martinez-in-sight-villa-wants-sancho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/man-utd-seeks-goalkeeper-emi-martinez-in-sight-villa-wants-sancho\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd seeks goalkeeper: Emi Mart\u00ednez in sight, Villa wants Sancho"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Manchester United seeks to reinforce the goal: Emi Mart\u00ednez in the crosshairs<\/h2>\n\nManchester United are exploring the possibility of signing Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Mart\u00ednez, according to sources close to the club.\n\nUnited is interested in incorporating a new goalkeeper before the end of the transfer market.\n\nIn addition to Martinez, the club has contacted Royal Antwerp for the 23-year-old goalkeeper, Senne Lammens. United&#8217;s board has also closely followed Martinez&#8217;s situation, after Aston Villa rejected a loan offer earlier in the summer.\n\nUnited&#8217;s interest in a new goalkeeper intensifies after the irregular starts of Andr\u00e9 Onana and Altay Bayindir this season. Onana made a mistake that resulted in a goal in the elimination of the Carabao Cup against Grimsby Town, while Bayindir, who started in the three Premier League matches, has had error-prone performances.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0831%2Fr1539092_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Emi Mart\u00ednez\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Emi Mart\u00ednez podr\u00eda reemplazar a Altay Bayindir como el portero titular de Ruben Amorim en Old Trafford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nIt is speculated that Mart\u00ednez could miss Aston Villa&#8217;s match against Crystal Palace on Sunday due to United&#8217;s interest.\n\nUnited manager Ruben Amorim was asked about the goalkeepers&#8217; situation after the 3-2 victory over Burnley and defended Bayindir and Onana.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEveryone talks about the goalkeeper. I think it&#8217;s difficult to be Manchester United&#8217;s goalkeeper at the moment. The players are struggling a bit with everything surrounding the club. That&#8217;s normal. So it&#8217;s not just the goalkeepers. I think everyone has to improve\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Ruben Amorim, Manchester United coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<h2>Aston Villa interested in Jadon Sancho<\/h2>\n\nMeanwhile, Aston Villa is interested in Jadon Sancho. United is looking for Sancho to leave before the transfer deadline, and the 25-year-old player could join Aston Villa on loan, in a deal separate from the possible signing of Martinez by United.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0603%2Fr1501829_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jadon Sancho\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jadon Sancho pas\u00f3 la temporada pasada cedido en el Chelsea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nSancho has one year left on his contract with United and could become a free agent next summer.\n\nSources also report that Aston Villa are close to signing Victor Lindel\u00f6f as a free agent. The central defender left United in the summer after eight years at the club.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United seeks to reinforce the goal: Emi Mart\u00ednez in the crosshairs Manchester United are exploring the possibility of signing Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Mart\u00ednez, according to sources close to the club. United is interested in incorporating a new goalkeeper before the end of the transfer market. In addition to Martinez, the club has contacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[533,4468,4885,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-30091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-emi-martinez","10":"tag-goalkeeper","11":"tag-manchester-united"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}