We made our third signing of the summer yesterday with the capture of Runar Alex Runarsson – now to be known as Alex Runarsson – from Dijon. The signing of the £1.5 Icelandic international came just minutes before the man he's replacing – Emi Martinez – saved a penalty on his debut for Aston Villa. I sense the ‘Look at what Emi did!' thing is going run throughout this season, but how much attention you pay to that will be an individual thing. He wanted to go, we wanted £20m, sometimes that's as much as there is to it. Anyway, the arrival of Runarsson is interesting. First off, it absolutely and utterly cements Bernd Leno's position as the number 1 keeper at the club. I know...
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