Bernd Leno: Chosen One

Damn bro, 100hours seems dreadful, hope you are keeping your mental health and physical health well as you go along!

Top post and echoes my sentiments on the GK situation. I remember you shedding some light on Leno when he joined with people questioning him constantly.

Comparing Fabianski and Martinez is quite fitting, great goal keepers who can have absolute worldies but never really meant to be the number 1 at a top club. Martinez has been a loyal player for the club and its actually amazing he has had the chance to be a starter elsewhere. He took his chance brilliantly but putting Leno down to elevate him has been grinding my gears since his purple patch started.

 

Didn't help that Lehman who was around the club at the time, kinda buried Leno.

https://www.skysports.com/football/...esses-battle-between-petr-cech-and-bernd-leno

This wasn't even the quote I remember, so it must have been more than once. I remember Lehman on tv saying Bernd "wasn't ready" shortly after he arrived at the club.

On a side note, interesting how Emery had been trying to get these guys to play from the back from time ago. Arteta's execution way better but I am sure Leno helps with that unlike Cech.

 

Tbh most of what he said was already touched upon when he first joined.

We knew he was error prone and had to step up to play in the PL. Lehman didn't really say anything that someone who liked Leno before he joined us wasn't aware of.

If you look at the thread when he joined, I pointed out something similar and Toby who follows the Bundesliga a lot more added a lot of insight into what to expect in his first season.

 

I hope people can finally let go of Martinez. They tried to keep him, but Martinez deserved to get his chance at being clear #1 in EPL.

"on whether choosing Leno as his first choice and letting Emi leave has been the hardest decision of his managerial career so far...

Well, there's been many challenges since I joined the club! Obviously that one was tough but before that, as you can imagine, there were some conversations in the background about things developing in one way. So I knew what was going to happen with Emi. I had many discussions with him and I think we all finished in really good terms and we decided that Bernd was going to be the starter.

on what convinced him that Bernd was the long-term option...

I was very clear with both of them that it wasn't a #1 and a #2 and that they had to compete for the place like any other position in the team. To be fair, Bernd was superb before he got injured at Brighton and Emi was absolutely excellent with all of the games that he played and how much he helped us as well with winning the trophies. But at the end of the day, that created a big competition, some big expectations from both of them and we had to deal with that. We were really open, trying to have those discussions and at the end, Emi had a really good offer, really well-suited to what he wants to achieve long-term and short-term and we allowed him to leave the club."

https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-west-ham-willian-signings-transcript

 

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Martinez is better. period

 

Compared to Aston Villas GKs he is.

 

Shaky tonight. Poor distribution at times as well, hopefully it's just rustiness.

 

I just have that bad feeling his nonsense from crosses is gonna cost us like the Chelsea game last season at some point at a crucial stage.

 

Yeah I’m sorry, you can feel his shakiness go through the defense. Wish we kept Emi. Nothing we can do about it now.

 

I thought he was shaky to tonight, been a great keeper so far but I hope we don't regret the EMI sale

 

His frame is too lightweight to deal with crosses, so he stays in his goal. This invites pressure.

Good shot stopper, but does not have physical presence of a goalie.

 

will you moan about this every game now?

 

He swept well and also got down really well to one of West Ham's chances probably stopping up from conceding.

But really needs to work on his dominance. The guy's 6'3 so he's not a midget.

 

Hasnt been playing for a while. He will come.back

 

Howler, but this is rare from Leno.

 

Depends if we escape with a win all the time.

 

my God I'm shaking..Emi definitely is the better atm but we already sold him. Just sad