Emi Martinez transfer fixes Man United's two main problems but hands Ruben Amorim a headache

It is official, transfer silly season is here. How do we know? Just look at some of the players Manchester United have found themselves linked with in these opening days of June.

Take Emiliano Martinez, for example. Aston Villa and Argentina goalkeeper, a 2022 FIFA World Cup winner plus collector of the Yashin Trophy and The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper award, twice each.

It comes as no surprise an overhaul is being speculated for Man United's goalkeeping department looking ahead to a first full season under Ruben Amorim, but Martinez, really?

Andre Onana has hardly done much in the space of two years to instil confidence within those protecting his goal, let alone the 74,310 who turn up to Old Trafford every other week hoping to see the turning point in which their club heads back towards the top.

Perhaps the most high-profile errors in 2024/25 came in Europa League action, when not one, but two calamities allowed Lyon to take a two-goal apiece draw for the quarter-final second-leg at Old Trafford - all after former Red Devil Nemanja Matic had publicly taunted Onana, branding him 'one of the worst' in the club's history. Again, in the final, Brennan Johnson bundled Spurs' eventual winner over the line with the 28-year-old slow to react.

But it is in the Premier League he plays the majority of his football and on top of four errors leading to a shot on target across the term just finished, his goals conceded and clean sheet rate might just give Matic's severe claim some legs.

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What isn't taken into consideration with the above is the failure of the defence in front of the Cameroon international. Take Edwin van der Sar's days in net for Sir Alex Ferguson, in Man United's best-performing season,