Former Arsenal player, David Seaman has come out to admit that he is puzzled by Mikel Arteta’s decision to rotate his goalkeepers this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he does not know how he feels about managers rotating goalkeepers, and he is not sure if he or Peter Schmeichel would have loved to be rotated back in the day.
David added that seeing Ramsdale on the bench has been puzzling to say the least, and he just hopes Arteta‘s plans work out eventually.
His words, “What he’s doing is what he spoke about. He’s making sure they all get game time. We’ll have to wait and see how that pans out. Back in my day, I don’t know whether I would’ve liked that as much. I’m sure [Peter] Schmeichel wouldn’t have liked it either! But it was different back then, that was 20 years ago. The game’s changed and Mikel’s trying something new. ‘Will it work out? I don’t know if I’m honest. I’m still puzzled as to why Aaron was left on the bench.”
“It was a strange summer. Aaron did brilliantly last season. He was voted the goalkeeper in the Player’s Team of the Season – that’s how good he was! Then to come into this season and play five or six games… it must be quite a shock to him. But he’s got to handle that. And Mikel’s got to handle that and make sure he keeps Aaron happy. It’s a situation that they’ve brought upon themselves because they brought another really experienced goalkeeper in.”
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Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season, Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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