Rather keep Turner than to waste a whole lot of money on this guy. He is not an improvement on Ramsdale.

daredevil

It's ironic being an Arsenal fan and mugging a keeper for being dunked on. When our greatest ever got dunked on pretty badly himself. Also, watch some old Schmeichel clips, he was lobbed so many times, it's unbelievable. Le Tissier, Albert, Suker, Pires etc.

You can't leave out this beauty from Rocky Rocastle:

    Don Pacifico spending more on a back-up than for your first choice is pretty extreme.

    Similar things were said when we bought Rice, and never moved Partey on. It's not my money.

      daredevil Ramsdale is generally a good shot stopper and makes some absolutely spectacular saves from time to time. He also gets punked a bit too often, and that sort of cancels out the parts the spectacular stuff he does. If you're beaten from the halfway line it means you have poor awareness of your positioning. If you get scored on directly from a corner kick, it means you have poor command of your box. It's just unacceptable for a goalie at top level, in my opinion.

        would be pretty weird to me if we spent £40m on a backup keeper before we bought a world class striker. im all for providing ramsdale with competition, but i think we could use an actual goalscoring striker more than a backup keeper

          mdgoonah41 there aren’t any world class strikers going about though. Meanwhile Arteta’s wanted Raya for 2 years now.

            I love Ramsdale, so does Dave Seaman. Sure he's not perfect but he's got plenty of time to develop as a keeper.

            Anyone who thinks we lost the title because of Ramsdale - @Clrnc referred to people online saying this - doesn't understand football.

              I really like Raya, always impresses when I watch Brentford. That said I have loads of time for Ramsdale too so I'm not sure who will start. I have been a bit worried about Turner having to come in though, he's not convinced me at all.

              Asterix I think it's easy for neutral fans to think that because they watch highlight reels and see him making mistakes in the run in rather than the other 90% of his game.

                We lost the league because we lacked quality depth. This goes a ways in mitigating that as well.

                Sounds like will be done soon

                Definitely an upgrade on the distribution front. Being able to swiftly release Saka or Martinelli as alternative to patient build up play will make us more unpredictable and tougher to play against.

                I think he’s coming to be number 1

                Raya isn't being signed on a whim - Arteta's followed him for at least 2 seasons now which makes him a higher conviction target than anyone else we've signed in one sense. There's two positions in the squad that haven't had any investment this summer - GK and striker. And since there's an absence of a high profile striker at the moment, there's nothing wrong with chasing incremental gains.

                The worst outcome is that Raya does not displace Ramsdale because the latter gets a kick up to push on to the next level which is also a win. As for misallocation of resources - so what? People have said that about Rice and Havertz already - the Kroenkes along with Edu and Arteta aren't frivolous spenders and as long as it isn't impacting any other transfers then I don't really see the problem.

                I hope I'm wrong, but I hate the idea of this signing even more than I did the Willian one.

                That said, not that I'm rationalising at all, maybe Rammers does need some proper competition. £40m though...

                  I think it's another statement signing from the recruitment team to help us be even more press resistant and keep us steadily on the front foot. Good stuff.