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Team Review – Arsenal
League Position: 5th
Ins And Outs
Ins:
Ben White from Brighton & Hove Albion £52.65m
Martin Odegaard from Real Madrid £31.5m
Aaron Ramsdale from Sheffield United £25.2m
Takehiro Tomiyasu from Bologna £16.74m
Albert Sambi Lokonga from RSC Anderlecht £15.75m
Nuno Tavares from Benfica £7.2m
Auston Trusty from Colorado Rapids £1.64m
Matt Turner from New England Revolution £5.73m
Outs:
Joe Willock to Newcastle United £26.46m
Lucas Torreira to Fiorentina (loan) £1.35m loan fee
Ainsley Maitland-Niles to AS Roma (loan) £450,000 loan fee
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Barcelona free
Calum Chambers to Aston Villa free
Willian to Corinthians free
Sead Kolasinac to Olympique Marseille free
Dejan Iliev to AS Trencin free
Hector Bellerin to Real Betis loan
Matteo Guendouzi to Olympique Marseille loan
William Saliba to Olympique Marseille loan
Reiss Nelson to Feyenoord loan
Pablo Mari to Udinese loan
Auston Trusty to Colorado Rapids loan
Runar Alex Runarsson to OH Leuven loan
David Luiz released
Goalkeepers:
Aaron Ramsdale
Bernd Leno
Arthur Okonkwo
Matt Turner
Runar Alex Runarsson
I know that most Arsenal fans love Ramsdale, because he is demonstrative and flashy, making even the simplest most routine save into a carnival, but to me he is not a good keeper. Great keepers make the job look easy and even world class saves are just made, without any ceremony around them. Ramsdale is the opposite, he makes easy saves look like he has pulled out a worldie, flying across the goal to pull out a stop that if he had just been positioned correctly would have been a simple catch. Instead he is full stretch to just about push it back out into danger. That is not a good piece of goalkeeping but he then celebrates like he is lifting the World Cup and the fans lap up that passion, never questioning whether he is any good because they love the way he acts. For me it leaves goalkeeping as a weak area of the team, as none of the options are better and it means the defence is always lacking in confidence as they cannot rely on their keeper.
Defenders:
Ben White
Gabriel
Rob Holding
Kieran Tierney
Nuno Tavares
Takehiro Tomiyasu
Cedric Soares
William Saliba
Pablo Mari
Auston Trusty
Hector Bellerin
There are so many question marks surrounding the defensive group at Arsenal, but most have to be directed at Arteta’s bizarre treatment of the standout player, Saliba. Will he finally be given his chance this forthcoming season or will he once again be sent…
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