Arsenal: Keylor Navas rumors hardly needed any rubbishing

Unai Emery has done the unnecessary and rubbished Arsenal’s links to Keylor Navas, but come on… that wasn’t really necessary, was it?

Somehow, I manage to consistently forget how stupid transfer rumors can be, and it takes the opening of a transfer window to properly remind me. You’d think, after tracking about a century’s-worth of Edinson Cavani-to-Arsenal rumors, that I’d have learned. But then we get linked to a £16m deal for Keylor Navas and I learn again.

Navas is currently the out-of-favor keeper at Real Madrid, and thus he may be seeking a way out of the Spanish capital, but the last place he need apply is Arsenal, who just broke the bank (figuratively speaking) for Bernd Leno this past summer.

There are two lines of reasoning for why we would actually want to spend our hard-earned money (figuratively speaking, again) on a new keeper, and both are quite silly.

The first line of thinking is that we need a better reserve keeper. Petr Cech is due to leave and Emi Martinez is not proven yet. This line of thinking I can at least partially wrap my head around, because I’d hate for another Cech/Ospina situation to develop, where we only have one quality keeper.

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But Martinez needs a proper chance, and there are plenty of other options we can invest in without spending so much money on something we don’t actually need. Our problem this season is not at keeper – it is so far from being at keeper that all money we might have spent on a keeper needs to be immediately rerouted.

The other line of thinking is that Bernd Leno isn’t good enough. And anyone who actually thinks that we should be pursuing Navas to replace Leno needs to give themselves a fierce wedgie, because it’s absolutely asinine to go on about how he isn’t good enough after half a season stuck behind one of the worst defenses in England.

Again, it’s Sczesny all over again. Look at what the Pole is doing nowadays, behind a competent defense.

Unai Emery has, obviously, gone ahead and rubbished these rumors, as if they needed any rubbishing (spoiler: they didn’t).

At the end of the day, Leno is a fantastic keeper in the making who just needs some sort of support system from his defenders in front of him. And if you want a No. 2 keeper of Navas’s quality, well, you’re supporting the wrong team. We don’t have that kind of money, remember?