Viljami Sinisalo

ASTON VILLA are facing a fight to keep young keeper Viljami Sinisalo with Celtic interested in signing the Finnish international.

The Glasgow giants need a new keeper for next season as former England no1 Joe Hart has retired from the game.


Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers is looking at a number of targets and has been impressed by £3million-rated Sinisalo who spent last year on loan at Exeter.

A number of Championship clubs are also looking at the 22-year-old who has one year left on his current deal at Villa Park, having joined the club five years ago.

Sinisalo spent the entire season on loan at Exeter in League One and played 50 games.

He helped them reach the last 16 of the Carabao Cup, knocking out Luton on the way.


He said: “It’s been the best year of my footballing life. It’s been brilliant.

 

He won POTY down south and seems very well rated among their fans.

At the same time, I don't think GK is an area we should mess about with, would like a proven, experienced player there. This boys had 2 full seasons, one of which was in the Scottish Championship.

 

how this guy doesn't get a game for Scotland I'll never know

 

Won 6 awards at the end of season awards for Exeter and capped twice by Finland now. Looks the sort of guy who we'd maybe regret not getting in a year or two's time. Take.

I see Gary Caldwell is the Exeter manager. No doubt he'll be telling us all about him...

 

I know what you mean. We took a similar risk with Fraser Forster though and that worked out well.

Ideal scenario would have been Hart hanging another year with a youngish player gradually taken over

 

To be honest, reading we were after a 22 yo keeper from Villa made me think it would be someone pish, but after reading up a wee bit, seems he’s been incredible this season and won 6 awards for Exeter lol

As mentioned above though, we can’t really * up the GK signing, and whilst this guy may have promise, he’s still unproven. I’d take him over some of the other names being floated, but still would like us to sign someone better

 

Aye we messed up in that scenario, this boy seems good, but he'd be, in essence, a project signing and we can't afford that at GK

 

I'd like someone with more experience..

With all due respect, the pressure of playing for us compared to Exeter in the lower leagues is obvioust o everyone..

He does sound impressive though. Could be a gem..

 

Never seen him play but he does sound impressive, in fairness. I worry about younger goalkeepers though.

Ideally, we would bring him in with another experienced GK, in like a Hart mould. We will need two goalkeepers anyways because Hart and Siegrist will both be away at the end of this season.

 

We need 2 goalkeepers. Loan to buy with a slightly higher fee helping both sides. Also sign an experienced one.

 

Could this be why this guy and begovic rumour has popped up at the same time, is this the two we are looking at.

 

Definitely take him. Seems like one who could go to the top.

 

Would make sense. An experienced head to help bridge the gap/risk of the younger one for a year.

Is begovic the answer to that though? And does the younger lad need that? At 22 and having now had two full seasons and call ups done, not sure if he would see bench/backup as the correct plan for him?

Or perhaps literally a guy like begovic to just be his cover should he flop?


Sent from my M2012K11AG using Tapatalk

 

yeah I was thinking if this this guy flopped , it’s ok playing league one but then to then step into a champions league match in a full house is way different.

 

Aye it's massive jump.

Think if we went down this route, both players would need to be clearly told their roles in the coming season and what's expected.

Can't be signing a begovic on 30k and this lad, both then expecting first team football.

Nor can we give begovic 30k as a purely backup option, if the younger lad flopped.

So would begovic accept even 15k for a season?

Still not remotely sold on begovic personally, but the plan needs to be really clear to all involved if that was the case.

Sent from my M2012K11AG using Tapatalk

 

If the GK's we are being linked with are genuine targets then next season is going to be about as much fun as this one has been.

 

I know. Being top of the league and having a Scottish Cup final to look forward to is * murder like.

 

We've been poor for the majority of this campaign and have regressed since last season. Yes, we may end up winning the league and even getting a double and I will be grateful if we do but don't try making out that there's nothing in what I say. Our signings have mostly failed so far, the standard of football has often been dull and a lot of our better players have been below their best. I'll always be thankful when Celtic succeed but it doesn't automatically mean we're in great shape.

 

Wouldn't be completely against signing this boy and Begovic this summer.

Siegrist and Hart will both be gone, so we ideally need two GK's. Bring in an older head in Begovic and a younger, talented GK in Sinisalo.

I'd still prefer to just go for an experienced GK that's in his prime mind you