Arsenal legend Arsene Wenger doesn’t agree with rotating goalkeepers as Gunners manager Mikel Arteta has suggested he might do this season.
Arteta decided to drop Aaron Ramsdale for summer signing David Raya after Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-1 in early September.
Ramsdale has since made an appearance for England in an international friendly match against Scotland and returned to the Gunners line-up for their 1-0 victory over Brentford in the League Cup at the end of September.
After dropping Ramsdale for Raya in September, Arsenal boss Arteta explained his decision and suggested that he might even rotate goalkeepers during matches.
“It’s the same rationale as to why Fabio [Vieira] and Gabby [Jesus] played – I haven’t had a single question about why Gabriel hasn’t been starting. He has won more trophies than anybody else in that dressing room, including me,” Arteta said in a press conference.
“I want Aaron to react the same as Gabriel Jesus. The same as Kai Havertz, as Takehiro Tomiyasu. Exactly the same. We play with 11 players, not 10 plus one.
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“I’m a really young manager, I’ve been in the job three and a half years. I have few regrets, but one of them is that on two occasions, I felt after 60 minutes and 85 minutes of two games in this period to change the goalkeeper in that moment.
“I didn’t do it, I didn’t have the courage to do it. But I’m able to take a winger or striker and put a centre-back on to play a back five to hold on to a result. We drew those games, and I was so unhappy.
“Someone is going to do it, and maybe [people will say] that’s strange. But why not? Tell me why not. You have all the qualities in another
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