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Ramos take it easy on the kids please
Ramos: no bueno compadre
Regardless of the sporting aspects, the way the Ramsdale situation is being handled by the manager is the newest example of why we continually feel we aren’t squeezing the absolute maximum value out of player sales.
So if Arteta thinks Raya is better, how exactly is he meant to play Raya while protecting Ramsdale’s value? The manager’s job is to win games not artificially inflate player values
Maybe he shouldnt suggest verbally that the keepers will share minutes and then very obviously not do that.
If he said properly raya was no 1 and that wouldn’t change then ramsdale and his team could start looking at options and buying clubs would be going off of the last 2 years and not a year hes gonna spend sitting on the bench
I’d love for you to point out where in my comment you have seen me suggest Arteta do absolutely anything.
Overly aggressive and flippant response typical of this subreddit
Just watch the MNF clip with our game, and Carra’s now talking about field tilts. I think that is it. Stats folks winning it again.
“In my day, you only had field tilt after an earthquake!”
—Graeme Souness, probably
😂
I know today’s match is a must win, but I’d still like to see the introduction of one of Tomi/Kiwior, with ESR, and Trossard for Saka (Jesus RW).
I’ve been critical of Ødegaard recently but if Jesus plays RW I’d like to see him play.
Sell the cunt in January I’m legit done with him
Eddie Eddie Eddie, can’t you see,
when you get outran by a 95 year old it doesn’t move me.
And I just hate your first touch
Guess that’s why Teta’s manager and I’m watching on TV.
Have there been any Timber updates?
When Raya was looking a bit shaky, the camera frama focused on Inaki in the dugout. Have we every seen broadcasters do this before? Diverting focus onto a team’s goalkeeping coach because they know he’s involved in behind-the-scenes decision making.
Thought it was an interesting detail Sky decided to act on to keep the conversation going
Normally it would’ve been ramsdale
Probably not, but Caña’s involvement in the transfer has been widely reported so it’s not totally outrageous.
Well they didn’t have Ramsdale to pan to so I guess they took the next best thing. Always out to hate on our Arsenal…
How can we stop this Spurs side?
Have them play someone in the top 10 of the league and assume VAR can actually do it’s job
Well they’ve played us and united and have 4/6 points.
You can only play whats in front of you
Utd had 20 plus shots, 2xg, and a dodgy pen call in that game too.
Jorginho shat the bed and we suffered an injury to Rice that completely changed the game.
Less said about the Liverpool game the better.
We scraped past utd with the barest of margins, drew with spurs and dropped points to fulham.
People are writing them off because it’s spurs, but they’ve been better than us this year and I don’t even think it’s that close
they are finished when they start to have injuries, and they have injury prone players
no fkn way partye is injured ffs
Doing pushups/goblet squats/abs bicycle everyday for every point earned till we win the league. Day 74: 24 goblet squats ✅
How we feeling for tonight?
trepidation.
Cautiously optimistic.
Please ramos, you dont need to destroy anyone ankle or hand today.
I’m of the opinion that Ramsdale is a better keeper than Raya, but I also agree that dropping Raya for a few ball playing mistakes is not the right message to send
Better in what way?
To wind it back a bit, one of the things that was talked about a fair bit in the later phases of last season was the shift in Ramsdale’s passing to something much more conservative: fewer short balls through the press, more hoofing and less precision in middle and long distance, etc.
Arteta wants our players to take risks in the buildup. It’s why he bought Thomas Partey and built around him as our 6; it’s why he bought Zinchenko; it’s why he bought Raya; it’s why he bought Rice, who is even better at carrying the ball forward (once he gets going) than Thomas. He understands that excessively safe buildup play is a recipe for sterile, ineffectual possession, and that breaking the opposing press is a great way to generate mismatches in the attacking third-- provided we also progress rapidly when we do.
He’s not going to drop Raya for those errors of ambition any more than he’ll drop Zinchenko.
Yep. There’s a clip that I always think of and it’s pep a few years ago in training yelling at his players and he’s says something like “the one thing I hate is when you don’t want the ball” and then he says something like “I want you to crave the ball, you have permission to make a mistake”
Maybe Ramsdale is better at some things.
However, I think the reason Raya starts is that he is mentally stronger and willing to play the risky style that Arteta is asking of his GK. Ramsdale even admitted he couldn’t do it.
Xhaka’s comments after that Newcastle game were pointed at Ramsdale more than anyone. He was too scared to follow the gameplan.
I love Ramsdale’s personality and everything, but it’s down to him to now push himself and find the maturity and courage to reach his potential. This is what it takes to be a top keeper now. You can’t stay on your line and hoof it.
I don’t think it’s a settled competition. Ramsdale has it in him to claw it back. But he needs to be able to do what the coaches ask.
Let’s beat these racists cunts today
Last time we played some racists in Europe we beat them 4-0 with an elite Laca pic too
Think we should do it again 😈
Passed up our chance last weekend. Need to take this one.
only like 3 of their fans were racist (still too many) and their biggest ultra group/the club itself condemned it as soon as the match ended.