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Daily Express
|September 03, 2025
Lammens has massive potential but is not in same bracket as Villa's Martinez
ONLY Manchester United could close what had been a successful transfer window with a signing that poses more questions than it answers.
Having recruited proven Premier League attackers in Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, and a promising young striker in Benjamin Sesko, United could consider the window a triumph.
They also managed to offload most of Ruben Amorim’s exiled “bomb squad”.
But their £18.2million deadline-day signing of young Belgian goalkeeper Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp has served to add to United’s problems between the posts rather than providing a solution.
Having chosen to sign 23-year-old Lammens rather than 33-year-old World Cup winner Emi Martinez from Aston Villa, United have added a fourth goalkeeper without having an established No.1.
They take on local rivals Manchester City at the Etihad a week on Sunday in the first derby of the new season with uncertainty over who will go in goal.
This story is from the September 03, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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