Arsenal transfers: Romano confirms first summer signing with deal 'verbally agreed' between clubs
Fabrizio Romano has proven Tool kit’s first transfer of the upcoming window via a conversed devotion already in place in between both bars.
The Artillerymans lately expanded their lead at the optimal of the Premier League table obeying a significant 3-0 profitability against Bournemouth.
After upholding a clean sheet in the game, David Raya was proven as the Golden Glove winner for 2023/24, owning kept 15 clean bed linens this season.
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The Spanish goalkeeper is presently on money from Brentford, yet Romano has proven that a conversed devotion is already in place that will go to him symbol for life in the summer season season.
“Realise Tool kit plan sticks roughly understandable granted that last summer season season: David Raya will finished upwards being Tool kit player on long-term decision from Brentford for £27m,” Romano proven on X.
“It’s unanimously verbally furnished in between ceremonies.”
Arteta took plenty of flack when he originally approved Raya, yet the judgment to correction Ramsdale has inevitably been a provable one.
The Artillerymans boast the ideal defensive record in the Premier League, owning merely furnished 28 purposes from 36 suits so much.
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Once gained conditions around Raya’s future, Arteta told press reporters: “Those conversations are for after the season, we will revisit whereby we are.
“Evidently we are actually joyful via David and everything that he has channelled to the bar, to the subordinate, there’s zero agitation around it, yet unanimously those judgments are to be gained in between unanimously of us at the bar and we will go to.”
Raya still has doubters to win over
While the majority of Tool kit supporters appear joyful to grasp ago Raya on board for next season, the Spanish goalkeeper still has a couple of doubters to win over yet.
He has been guilty of rendering the inexplicable slipup every as shortly as in a while and Troy Deeney is among the pundits who aren’t instead advised by the Brentford loanee.
“I am still not sold on the goalkeeper,” Deeney told talkSPORT when bargaining Raya.
“I am not. I wear’t go to… I construe they pined to glean rid of Ramsdale, or have competitors is the word they identify when they yearn to correction him, yet I wear’t reckon they reconditioned him via the standout goalkeeper whereby you go, ‘Oh, that’s my goalkeeper for the next four, 5 6 years. Implement you glean what I mediocre?
“I reckon in a year’s time, they will be glancing at Raya and going, ‘Is he the confirmation we can glean over the spiel upwards or not?’ Because he has gained a couple of slides this year alike to what Ramsdale did.”
