Breezy ®
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Arteta’s biggest crime was backing this **** over Martinez.
Mod Edit: calm down ffs
Mod Edit: calm down ffs
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Bernd Leno: Chosen One
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Country: England
It's been a disappointing night all round but atleast the bantz is still alive on AM.
Country: England
I'm hearing that "Bernd Leno has more goals than Willian this season", jesus help me.
rich 1990
Not A Big Believer In Diversity
Turned into Taibi ffs
I still can't get my head around that. We lost quality and money and gained two jokers.
juice man
Can't make his mind up
I still don't think it was as obvious at the time, but firmly in the "we let the wrong one go" camp.
Gooner1988TK
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Lmao you have to be joking. Leno belongs in the same category as Koscielny and Djourou. You know every game they are/were all bound to mess up at least once and lose their concentration to give the opposition a golden opportunity. He’s just a liability and very error prone which was already well documented before he even signed for us.
juice man
Can't make his mind up
Don't think many were under the impression Leno was a world class or even an elite GK. Easy to forget that Martinez was here for +/-8 years, constantly being sent out on loan and often times struggling to establish himself as a #1 at League 1 and Championship sides. When he got his chance, his performances for us were excellent, but lets not pretend his sample size for the first team was enough for anyone to be dead certain it wasn't just a purple patch.
All I'm saying was that there was a debate to be had at the end of last season. Now, not so much...
Gooner1988TK
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Agreed! Well said.
We needed the money.
CaseUteinberger
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Country: Sweden
Now our decision to let Emi go and go with Leno seems like a mistake, but when Emi came in, after Leno was injured, a ton of AM posters said he was absolute rubbish. I didn't even know he was in the club myself! Not sure anyone could have predicted this turn of events with any certainty.
Regardless, today was a proper **** show on the goal. He will not be sleeping well tonight. Hope he recovers until the EL came. We need him to play better for sure.
juice man
Can't make his mind up
You don't think we would have replicated the 20M fee by selling Leno? Can't imagine him going for less (at that time), but maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah perhaps but Emi’s stock was high after the way he ended the season.
Country: Canada
Based on his play last season, keeping him was the right choice. He put in the best season an Arsenal GK has had since Lehman.
Obviously he's had some very poor displays this year though so it looks bad in hindsight.
Obviously he's had some very poor displays this year though so it looks bad in hindsight.
Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
We could have sold Maitland-Niles, Willock, Bellerin, etc. Kroenke does us no favors whatsoever but the management of the money that is made available is absolutely shambolic.
Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
Let's take a moment to think about who has been in goal since Lehman and ask if being the best of that lot, headlined by an ancient Petr Cech who may well have still been on the Chelsea payroll is really an achievement that merits talking about.
shoot for the top
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This season, Martinez made 114 saves, clean sheet(14), accurate long balls 223 vs Leno 76 saves, clean sheet(9), accurate long balls 100.
What was Arteta thinking?
What was Arteta thinking?
Agreed, however I’m glad we kept Willock- I think there’s something there.
Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
He's done well at Newcastle to be sure. I would rather see him getting an opportunity versus someone like Ceballos. I get the sense he may be sold. Newcastle seem keen to keep him and Arteta prefers pensioners with nowhere to go but down.
scytheavatar
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Anyone who has followed Martinez at Villa knows that he is just as bad as Leno in making cheap errors, if not worse. The key difference is that Martinez is much better at playing the ball out than Leno, and missing that goalkeeper to play out from the back has been something that's killing Arteta's football.
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