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AARON RAMSDALE has been urged to leave Arsenal in the summer.
Premier League legend Andy Cole believes that the England international has been “mugged off” by manager Mikel Arteta.
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Andy Cole has suggested Mikel Arteta has ‘mugged off’ the goalkeeperGetty Images - Getty
GettyRamsdale, 25, was the Gunners’ first-choice goalkeeper last season but was replaced in the summer.
Arteta opted to sign David Raya on an initial loan deal from Brentford, and he has since replaced the Englishman.
The manager originally claimed that the two stoppers would be rotated but Raya has become the undisputed first-choice.
Cole, 52, believes that Ramsdale should seek pastures new this summer and has suggested that Newcastle could be a good move.
Cole told Betfred: “Nine times out of ten, when a player moves to a different club, they’re meant to be their new club’s number one centre-forward, centre-half, goalkeeper or whatever it may be.
“If Aaron makes the move, he will be Newcastle’s number one goalkeeper.
“I think he’s been hard done by, I really do.
“He was so good for Arsenal last season and then all of a sudden, Mikel Arteta has gone out and got a new goalkeeper and initially claimed that he had two number ones, which was complete nonsense from day one.
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“The way he’s disregarded Ramsdale has been really disrespectful.
“He’s mugged him off basically.
“I like how he goes about his business and he deserves to be treated with a bit more respect, so if he does move on from Arsenal, then he certainly would do a good job at Newcastle.”
Ramsdale has only made 11 appearances in all competitions this season.
He has kept three clean sheets and conceded 12 goals in that time.
Raya is expected to become a permanent Arsenal player in the summer.
Meanwhile, Arteta has told Ramsdale to wait until summer to have discussions about his future.
He said: “Now is the season, now is tomorrow, now is what we have done today and how can we improve tomorrow.
“And those talks are for much after, I think.”
How Arteta made Arsenal horrible again, with Tony Pulis tactic and gentle star turned into Diego Costa-style hate figure
By Dave Kidd
BOTTLERS, chokers, shandy-drinking southern softies.
These were the charges levelled at Arsenal when they blew the title last season.
And even if the actual reason they failed was because William Saliba got injured and Rob Holding had to start, Mikel Arteta clearly took those accusations to heart.
If his team are not crowned champions next month, the Gunners boss has categorically ensured that they won’t go down being accused of nicey-niceyness.
Because, as well as being thrillingly entertaining and free-scoring when they want to be, this season’s Arsenal are also thoroughly horrible.
They are not here to make friends. They are not interested in being anybody’s second-favourite team.
And so, six days after stink-bombing the Etihad with a display of Mourinho-esque anti-football for a 0-0 draw, Arsenal turned up at the home of former bogey-team Brighton and s***housed their way to a thoroughly impressive 3-0 win.
How wonderful for the travelling Gooners to witness Ben White — against his former club — going down as if he’d taken a bullet to his neck when Brighton’s Pervis Estupinan brushed against him.
White is renowned as a gentle and decent bloke, intelligent enough to challenge the zeitgeist and claim there might be things in life other than football.
And yet suddenly he’s become some Diego Costa-style anti-hero hate figure, his wife goading the masses by posting social-media pictures of them playing a childish card game on a sun lounger after he’d refused an international call-up.
Because Arsenal are horrible again. Even Ben White is a villain.
And that might just be Arteta’s greatest triumph.
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