If he plays that many matches then he'd have played around 50% (or more) of Arsenal's matches, I'm not sure how Ramsdale would therefore be number 1 in that scenario and how changing keeper (on average) every other game would be anything but a disadvantage to the side. How does a back 4 build up an understanding with the keeper if the keeper is changing every other game?
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Exactly. It just doesn’t work.
Arteta will be waiting for Ramsdale to have a poor game. He’ll bring in Raya and that will be it, assuming Raya plays well.
Unless, as you say, Raya is happy going from being Brentford’s No1 to Arsenal’s league cup goalkeeper - unlikely.
All the domestic cups, 8 PL games, a CL game or 2. It can tot up, maybe not 30, but certainly 20 and a bit. Don't think it's a bad idea at all, surprised more top teams going for 4 competitions don't do it more often. But it's getting a good keeper to be ok with that setup thats the hard part.
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I think you're either being incredibly optimistic with how well you expect Arsenal to do in the Cups or think there's more games than there are. Arsenal would need to make the final of 1 domestic cup and the semi of the other in order for him to hit more than 20 appearances, even if he were to play a combined 10 PL/CL games.
It's certainly possible but not exactly likely and something you can promise to a 2nd choice keeper. There's still the rotating the keepers point, even if only for 10 PL/CL games - I've never seen that done before and can't imagine it's what will happen either.
Anyway, we'll soon find out what Arsenal's plans are. I'd be amazed if Arteta doesn't have in his mind who will be his long term first choice and that keeper will play all PL & CL games.
If Arsenal get to the semi's of the domestic cups, that's 10 apps. 10 apps in the PL & CL combined is not a huge amount really, especially if Ramsdale gets an injury and he's out for 3 weeks, sprains his wrist or something.
I don't think CB/GK understanding is as much of a bigger deal than say a CB pairing. Goalies are pretty limited with the positions they can take up, they're both right footed as well, so no banana skins. And Raya isn't like Onana, who is on the extreme end of things, playing with a GK like that would require more work for sure
Edit. Obviously if Ramsdale starts making mistakes and buckles under the pressure for his place in the team then yeah, Raya will end up playing playing 95% of the PL & CL games.
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Whats his napper like these days? He was bald when he played for Leicester in the 90's.
If if if. It's not likely and not something you can base forecasts on. As I said, we'll soon find out.
Well Arteta has got him through the door, so he has 2 good keepers for the season, he'll try and use them.
£30m for a JWP is a good buy considering what English players usually go for and the fact everyone knows WHU just got £100m.
Not a fan of rotating keepers unless it's to get a look at someone in the league cup / dead rubber in CL/EPL. Genuine rotation I don't like at all, even when England did it at international level it annoyed me.
My view is, play your best keeper until you aren't happy with them, then give the other guy a run in the team for a bit, if they are no good and the original keeper is training well, put them back in to see if it was the kick up the arse they needed.
Not a fan of rotating keepers unless it's to get a look at someone in the league cup / dead rubber in CL/EPL. Genuine rotation I don't like at all, even when England did it at international level it annoyed me.
My view is, play your best keeper until you aren't happy with them, then give the other guy a run in the team for a bit, if they are no good and the original keeper is training well, put them back in to see if it was the kick up the arse they needed.
Financially we probably don't 'need' to sell but we will be because we've got a bloated squad that we don't need, half of which doesn't want to be here either.
Lavia will be on his way sooner or later, I would imagine along with a good few others - particularly so those who either are good enough for the PL or at least think they are and can get their agents to talk some clubs into bidding - Adams, KWP etc.
The Chelsea offer for Lavia is interesting though, as there were rumours the other day when Livramento left that Southampton renegotiated the sell-on clause we owed Chelsea for him. If true, maybe a bit of a deal has been done to accept a bit less from Chelsea to get a Lavia deal over the line in return?
Lavia will be on his way sooner or later, I would imagine along with a good few others - particularly so those who either are good enough for the PL or at least think they are and can get their agents to talk some clubs into bidding - Adams, KWP etc.
The Chelsea offer for Lavia is interesting though, as there were rumours the other day when Livramento left that Southampton renegotiated the sell-on clause we owed Chelsea for him. If true, maybe a bit of a deal has been done to accept a bit less from Chelsea to get a Lavia deal over the line in return?
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I'm inclined to agree with this, Spurs have never spent well when it comes to big purchases - though hopefully Lo Celso will finally come through this season, he had a brilliant spell in 19/20 where he dragged us through a fair few games when we were plagued with injuries, if he can get back to that form then our midfield suddenly looks stacked: Bissouma playing like he did at Brighton, Maddison, Bentancur, Lo Celso, Sarr, Skipp as good cover and Alfie Devine has looked really good for the period he's featured in pre-season.
But back to the point, we've just bought a promising striker; Alejo Veliz and we're looking at bringing in Gift Orban too - Orban might be ready to slot into the first team but it would be useful to train with Kane for a season (especially Veliz). We don't need to sell Kane to rebuild, the additional stadium revenue from non-football events more than pays to service the stadium debt and most of the outstanding amounts owed for players are over a longer term too. According to Forbes, Spurs are the third most profitable sports team in the world and the most profitable football club - a lot of that has to do with the huge amounts the stadium is bringing in.
One of our ITKs is saying that the Spurs acceptance of the bid is a rumour that has propagated (Paul O'Keefe).
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Kane should go really. Thats a big opportunity for him. Hopefully make him a better player for England as well.
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Look how well they spent the Bale money tho…..