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Aaron Rams...

spacemanspiff

Hope he's ready to play this weekend. Odegaard too.

TambourineMan

Genuinely hope an injury prevents this from happening. Fucking hate the clowns that run this club.

Gazza M

https://www.s24su.com/forum/threads/aaron-ramsdale.85125/page-76

could just be saltiness from him leaving, but stalking their fan forum reinforces the mixed bag opinion ramsdale seems to garner. he is young for GK though, so hopefully he matures. I don't want to see an arc where we force him to play out from the back and he makes tons of errors and turns into a pariah with a cratered market value

TambourineMan

Gazza M wrote:
https://www.s24su.com/forum/threads/aaron-ramsdale.85125/page-76

could just be saltiness from him leaving, but stalking their fan forum reinforces the mixed bag opinion ramsdale seems to garner. he is young for GK though, so hopefully he matures. I don't want to see an arc where we force him to play out from the back and he makes tons of errors and turns into a pariah with a cratered market value

This is inevitable.

Klaus

Gazza M wrote:
https://www.s24su.com/forum/threads/aaron-ramsdale.85125/page-76

could just be saltiness from him leaving, but stalking their fan forum reinforces the mixed bag opinion ramsdale seems to garner. he is young for GK though, so hopefully he matures. I don't want to see an arc where we force him to play out from the back and he makes tons of errors and turns into a pariah with a cratered market value

Reading that thread with a sinking heart.

Coombs

That thread actually makes me less annoyed by this signing. Character is going to be to the main factor in Ramsdale's fortunes at Arsenal. He clearly has talent, hopefully there is some latent ball playing potential he hasn't been able to showcase to date.

The plan was to get a homegrown keeper and we've done just that. Can definitely question the plan, but they seem to have executed at least.

lorddulaarsenal

Clearly has talent. Think our defence would benefit from a keeper who has more bravery than Leno

Coombs

Gotta work on those parries.

banduan

he's a keeper who does not exude confidence which makes him look worse than he is. Leno is something similar.

Meatwad

with the signings we've already made and the sales we didn't make, adding another underwhelming addition isn't the end of the world. this whole windows is a disappointment, but like with the others, i hope he kicks ass.

Burnwinter

Jury's out, if he makes it it will be seen as a great and financially prudent signing.

Rohit

Trying to be positive about this. His recent struggles could be down to age. Very few young keepers that are mature. Martinez looked out of his depth at 23 too. Generally, English keepers don't develop as much as their hype suggests but hope we have found a long term solution to an important position.

Don Pacifico

I think that's the best we can hope for Rohit. Like everyone else, I find this signing to be a depressing indictment of our recruitment strategy but worst case scenario is that we end up selling him in a few years for something similar to what we paid and we bring in a better 'keeper.

Question for the group - is this guy worse than peak Almunia? My read would be that he's slightly worse albeit younger with time to improve, so that's another way we can kinda put a positive slant on it (given we were still able to reach the top four with Almunia!).

lorddulaarsenal

Look at his highlights - obvious talent. Every keeper has a wobbly spell at one stage or another.

Don Pacifico

I'm not sure it's about a wobbly spell, at least not for me. It's more about general wobbliness in his overall game.

goon

Rohit wrote:

Trying to be positive about this. His recent struggles could be down to age. Very few young keepers that are mature. Martinez looked out of his depth at 23 too. Generally, English keepers don't develop as much as their hype suggests but hope we have found a long term solution to an important position.

If you want to be positive about that then that's the hope, that he's got great underlying attributes but is just shaky due to confidence and age - not sure how that will be remedied in a significantly more pressured environment.

Segway

Leno is much better than this guy. Crazyness.

Lets see how he does...

Don Pacifico

Feel bad for him too - probably the first time he's gone into a club where the fans don't want him. Tough crowd.

Good performances will get them on side but if he's back-up to Leno, you send he's not going to get loads of opportunities this season unless Leno is horrendous.

Rohit

goon wrote:
If you want to be positive about that then that's the hope, that he's got great underlying attributes but is just shaky due to confidence and age - not sure how that will be remedied in a significantly more pressured environment.

It has happened before and Ramsdale has experience too. Match experience and the experience of pressure, that comes along with being in relegation battling teams.

At no point between the crazy Leage Cup games - 7-5 vs Reading in 2012 and 5-5 against Liverpool in 2020, both which featured Emi Martinez, 8 years apart, did I ever think he could become arguably the best keeper in the League. He always looked shaky to me with not so great body language.

I think the coach matters with the goalkeeping position more so than any other position. Right now we have zero trust in the staff and their eye for talent but I really hope they are right on this one. We are paying top money.

Qwiss

So where does this put him in the most expensive goal keepers of all time list?

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