Ah I see. Thanks for that. Definitely weird and arbitrary, but I'd expect nothing less.
Sure, and I'll hold my hands up and say I was all for moving onto Onana from DDG, having only seen him a handful of times (and of course the final performance was fresh in our minds at the time). In hindsight it was a dreadful move, as I'm sure any professional could have identified his fundamental technical issues.
Similarly I haven't seen Maignan for long enough to say whether he is consistently elite, only that he's been excellent when I have watched Milan. Them being happy to sell him for such a low fee is a bit of a red flag, though I believe it's partly down to his contract situation.
Of the guys you've suggested there I've always been impressed by Pope. It'd be pretty uninspiring but a solid upgrade nevertheless, which would do just fine with where we're at currently. Martinez is also world class at times of course, but Villa fans seem to think he's on the downhill slide and I wonder what kind of wages he'd be asking to come here. He's also a lunatic of course, which isn't really what I want from a keeper (Give me VDS back, please).
The rest wouldn't be the best options I think, but I agree that if we can bring in a solid PL proven keeper for a decent fee with little fuss that'd be great. Flekken would have been good, Pope would work, I quite like Hermansen from Leicester if he'd be cheap.
