03 Nov 2026 16:21:57
One wonders what we could have got for Martinez in the summer after a decent showing in the World Cup, and who we could have bought as a replacement defender. Instead we will have to sell for far less in January or lose him for nothing in the summer. Another case of incredibly bad business decision making by the club.

1.) 03 Nov 2026
03 Nov 2026 17:57:34
By all accounts the club were open to selling him this to Atletico, but they preferred Romero to him. I just don't think there's much of a market for small, injury and error prone central defenders.

2.) 04 Nov 2026
04 Nov 2026 00:22:26
We paid 79m for a tall, slow, injury prone error prone defender.

3.) 04 Nov 2026
04 Nov 2026 11:30:12
To be fair wasn't he injured? Maybe a new set of balls for him could have been nice for the lads in training.

4.) 04 Nov 2026
04 Nov 2026 22:15:42
Martinez was in the World Cup team of the tournament. I think there would have been a market for him.

5.) 06 Nov 2026
06 Nov 2026 04:32:48
That makes no difference he was in World Cup team or not, plenty of players were, Pogba got a World Cup medal .

Poor poor CB for EPL, I have said that since day 1.