Richard Keys has slammed Mikel Arteta for his treatment of Aaron Ramsdale in comparison to Kai Havertz.
Over the weekend, Arsenal recorded a late 1-0 win over Brentford, with Kai Havertz scoring the winner from the bench and Aaron Ramsdale keeping a clean sheet in what was his first Premier League start since September – Ian Wright thinks he will be looking to leave in January.
The England star was only playing because David Raya was ineligible to play against his former club – Owen Hargreaves says ‘something big’ has to happen for Ramsdale to play again.
At the full-time whistle, Mikel Arteta could be seen excessively hugging Kai Havertz and pointing towards him when heading towards the away supporters.
But the outspoken presenter Richard Keys didn’t like that one bit and he felt that he should have been hugging Aaron Ramsdale instead, as he wrote in his personal blog.
The former Sky Sports presenter added that the Arsenal manager’s treatment of Aaron Ramsdale has been a ‘disgrace’ and that he has turned him into a ‘nervous wreck’.
That nervous nature was seen in the first half because Brentford should have punished the four-cap England international’s errors and now Richard Keys has told him to ‘get out’ of Arsenal.
Arteta’s treatment of Havertz and Ramsdale
“I didn’t like seeing Mikel Arteta marching across the Brentford pitch with his arms around Havertz,” said Keys
“It was clear what he really was trying to say. ‘My man. I told you. My man’. Arteta knows he dropped a b___k paying all that money for Havertz, so it was more with relief that he was cuddling and pointing at him. ‘I was right all along – you were wrong’. No, Mikel. You weren’t.
“What he should’ve been doing was walking towards those Arsenal fans with his arms around Ramsdale.
“The way he’s treated the keeper is a disgrace. He’s turned him into a nervous wreck. I hope Ramsdale gets himself out of Arsenal in January and goes on to prove what a good keeper he is with another club.”
Judge Arteta at the end:
The former Manchester City assistant has made some very big calls this summer and he has got some stick for it.
At the end of the day, all that matters is the end result. Will Arsenal win the Premier League title?
If they end up slipping up, then many will point towards Arteta’s calls, including paying big bucks for Kai Havertz and that Ramsdale call.