Jamie Carragher has expressed the opinion that Arsenal’s decision to install David Raya as the number one goalkeeper is a backward step for the club. Despite having Aaron Ramsdale, who performed exceptionally well and established himself as one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League last season, Arsenal opted to bring in Raya on loan from Brentford.
While Raya is considered a skilled goalkeeper, Carragher suggests that his time as Arsenal’s first-choice goalkeeper has not been particularly inspiring. The decision to replace Ramsdale with Raya has raised questions, especially as Raya has made notable mistakes in recent weeks, albeit without facing significant consequences from his teammates.
Carragher draws a parallel with Manchester United, who also changed their first-choice goalkeeper in the summer. The former Liverpool player believes that both Arsenal and Manchester United may have taken backward steps in their goalkeeping decisions, indicating a level of scepticism about the impact of these changes on the overall performance of the teams.
He said, as quoted by Metro Sport:
‘I’d probably look at the two goalkeepers at United at Arsenal. They have been poor haven’t they?
‘They’ve come in as sort of big players who will move them on from Ramsdale and De Gea at Manchester United and it’s almost the same or going backwards.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
Raya has hardly done better than Ramsdale in recent weeks and we can understand why people are criticising the Spaniard.
But he needs our support and we must offer it to him until he becomes the player we want him to be.
Watch the amazing highlights of Luton v Arsenal here…
CALLING ALL ARSENAL FANS! Anyone who would like to contribute an Article or Video opinion piece on JustArsenal, please contact us through this link…
Basically neither Raya nor Ramsdale are top quality whilst Leno and Martinez are in my opinion.Funny old game!
Leno is not top quality. Replacing him with Ramsdale genuinely improved us. The difference in results was obvious. So how can he be better than someone that improved us?
This is a flawed perspective.
In terms of traditional goalkeeping skills Leno and Martinez are arguably better than our latter two goalkeepers particularly if assessed over the long term.
Interestingly, before this season Raya had certain better stats than Ramsdale and during his limited time in the PL there were analytics suggesting that he was one of the best all round goalkeepers in the PL.
Martinez is the better of all, but not Leno. Ramsdale is better than Leno
It seems strange that Raya is taking all the games – I would’ve thought that Arteta would’ve split PL / CL games, between the two goalies, to at least try and keep them both happy.
Who listens to Caragher.
Vile man who spits in kids faces and keeps his highly paid job to be so Scouse bias
Arteta could have saved the club enough money by awarding no 1 spot to Martinez he won us the last trophy but his ego got both him and Arsenal board into this very mess he created.
What has “ego” got do with the decision? It seems now that any decision that people disagree with is now redefined as Arteta being on some kind of “ego trip”.
If Raya is so good why is he on loan? No club would let their No 2 goal keeper go out on loan!! So he must have been the No 3 keeper!! Ah but he is Spanish!! What a coinsidence!!! Watching him against Luton he played like a No 5 keeper!!! He will be Arsenals nemesis!!!
Gordon Bennett
So it’s down to Arteta and Raya being countrymen?
We are so absolutely awash with Spanish players that I can’t think of another one other than Raya