Bernd Leno: Mikel Arteta is wrong about substituting goalkeepers
Bernd Leno: Mikel Arteta is wrong about substituting goalkeepers
Bernd Leno has just finished training in strong swirling winds, the enemy, he says, of the goalkeeper.But a new enemy lurks in the wings, namely the notion, advanced by Mikel Arteta, that ’keepers should be rotated like any outfield player and even substituted during games. This is a philosophy that...
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I really enjoyed him at the club and I won’t have much ill will for him but are we all forgetting that this guy just refused to renew his contract ? I’m not sure how Arteta’s strategy will work. Maybe it’s a disaster or a huge success; maybe it’s his way of letting down Ramsdale easy. He has my trust to try things out.
Yeah - the article says that he claims he was told by the GK coach he had to leave the club, and it wasn't about performance. The spin the article puts on it seems to be that there was a secret hidden agenda against Leno.
Yes, it's possible that Arteta and the club did it for the wrong reasons, but I'm inclined to believe it was driven by either (or worse, both of) his attitude and his playstyle. Again, don't know if it's just spin from the editor, but Leno calls out the substitution idea because a keeper isn't in the flow of the game, but then goes on about how playing a second keeper outside the league is bad because players don't build a relationship with the keeper.
How the fuck is the second keeper meant to learn?
Not to mention that happened after we show faith in him as 1st by selling Emi.