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Ramsdale’s dad is a melon but let’s be honest, Arteta never should have fed the press that line about having two goalkeepers who would be rotated like other positions. In hindsight it’s the kind of fib that could build more resentment in Ramsdale than had Arteta just owned up to his decision. Rare moment of bad management imo.
Yes, I got no problem with Raya being the No.1, but Arteta doing a whole thing about having two strong keepers with different strengths that would both be important and rotate etc and then it turns out Raya is just gonna be the No.1 is a bit bad imo.
It’s just weird because it has definitely created extra pressure on both of our keepers and it just feels like it could’ve been avoided.
And it’s really sad to see the fanbase completely turning on Ramsdale. He’s not a flawless keeper but he’s definitely been overall good for us and played a huge role in our progress in the last two years.
I think it’s a disgrace from Mikel tbh.
It would have been fine too if he was more vague about it but the fact that he said he wish he had the courage to do it already pretty heavily implies that he felt letdown by Ramsdale at certain points last season.