{"id":35225,"date":"2025-08-31T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35225\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:42:15","slug":"man-united-transfer-news-emiliano-martinez-absent-from-aston-villa-squad-as-goalkeeper-agrees-personal-terms-with-the-red-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35225\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United transfer news: Emiliano Martinez absent from Aston Villa squad as goalkeeper &#8216;agrees personal terms&#8217; with the Red Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emiliano Martinez is left out of the Aston Villa squad for Sunday&#8217;s Premier League game against Crystal Palace amid the speculation surrounding the goalkeeper&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/emiliano-martinez\/\" title=\"More Emiliano Martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Emiliano Martinez<\/strong><\/a> has been left out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/aston-villa\/\" title=\"More Aston Villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Aston Villa<\/strong><\/a> squad for Sunday&#8217;s Premier League game against Crystal Palace amid the speculation surrounding the goalkeeper&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/man-utd\/\" title=\"More Manchester United\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Manchester United<\/strong><\/a> are said to be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/man-utd\/transfer-talk\/news\/world-cup-winner-the-subject-of-late-transfer-interest-from-man-united_580468.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushing to sign the World Cup winner<\/a><\/strong> before Monday&#8217;s transfer deadline.<\/p>\n<p>According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, personal terms have already been agreed with Martinez, who is desperate to make the move to the 20-time English champions before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Man United are also still in discussions with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/royal-antwerp\/\" title=\"More Royal Antwerp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Royal Antwerp<\/strong><\/a> over a move for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/senne-lammens\/\" title=\"More Senne Lammens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Senne Lammens<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News are reporting that both Lammens and Martinez want to make the move to Man United, but in a stunning turn of events, Villa are also thought to be considering the Antwerp goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, 32, has also been heavily linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League this summer, but it is understood that he is not ready to leave European football behind, especially in a World Cup year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgI\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez pictured on December 14, 2024\" class=\"vanilla-lazyload article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/24\/50\/emiliano-martinez.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martinez out of Villa squad amid Man United speculation<\/p>\n<p>Martinez would be the safer option for Man United considering his experience, but he is almost a decade older than Lammens, who turned 23 last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lammens is viewed as the successor to Thibaut Courtois between the sticks for Belgium, and he is regarded to be one of the best young goalkeepers in European football, impressing since his arrival at Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez would cost more, with Villa thought to want \u00a340m for his services. Meanwhile, a deal for Lammens is likely to be around \u00a320m.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/andre-onana\/\" title=\"More Andre Onana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Andre Onana<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/altay-bayindir\/\" title=\"More Altay Bayindir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Altay Bayindir<\/strong><\/a> have struggled in the early stages of the 2025-26 campaign, with the latter finding it difficult in the Premier League, while the former had a difficult night against Grimsby Town in the EFL Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Man United have still not ruled out signing a new midfielder before the transfer window closes, but the 20-time English champions are currently focusing on a move for a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>ID:580504:1false2false3false: from db desktop :LenBod:collect3337: <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/11\/49\/mattlaw.jpg\"\/>No Data Analysis info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emiliano Martinez is left out of the Aston Villa squad for Sunday&#8217;s Premier League game against Crystal Palace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4699,27361,27360,9,10,18,13,14,22,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,20,5,2533,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-35225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-aston-villa-crystal-palace","10":"tag-aston-villa-vs-crystal-palace","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breakingnews","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-manchester-united","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-sports-mole","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}