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Only November, isn’t it? Not even had our third momentum-killing international break of the season yet, have we? Far too early, then, to be calling any new signings absolute wasters who have shamed themselves and their new clubs.Definitely not the worst goalkeeper signed this summer. Arguably not even the worst deal. But its current combination of going badly and being largely unnecessary makes it tough to beat.
He looks nervous as all hell on the ball, which is the sort of thing that radiates through teams and terraces and simply wasn’t an issue when Ramsdale was in there, and his habit of getting way in front of his near post and stranded under bog-standard crosses is a concern. If Raya could position himself for crosses, Arteta and Arsenal could have spared themselves all the embarrassment of their tinfoil-hatted, swivel-eyed response to the Newcastle game. That alone gets him in this team.
But they got their pants pulled down here, didn’t they? It always looked a strange deal, a player who clearly didn’t want to leave Milan and definitely didn’t want to move to Newcastle seemingly forced into it by his former club. A sparkling debut against Aston Villa promised good things, but performance levels dropped off rapidly from that eye-catching start and everything now makes sense.
The plot may have remained hidden forever had it not been for the brave and selfless work of Havertz, who showed it all up for what it was when he was disgracefully yellow-carded when Sean Longstaff clattered recklessly into the German’s studs with his shinbone.
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