Arsenal: 5 Aaron Ramsdale transfer alternatives

4. A Stop-Gap Goalkeeper

Arsenal fans are sick of stop-gaps signings. It appears as if the club are drifting away from them too.

Mat Ryan was one such option and turned out to be a successful one, filling in for Leno on a handful of occasions and bolstering the numbers in a department where the club were weak. He has since moved on to new pastures as he sought regular first team football, leaving Arsenal back at square one.

Will they head down this route again?

Where one of the issues with such a decisions lies is in that bringing in a keeper on a season-long loan, for example, just presents another even more daunting position in 12 months’ time. It’s largely felt that Leno will be sold next summer when his contract enters its final year, meaning that while the stop-gap could be signed on, Arsenal will still have to sign another goalkeeper.

Possibly two if the temporary option doesn’t stay.

It’s another case of brushing the lego piece under the carpet only to step on it barefoot later and be faced with the same problem, only worse.

However, with a creative midfielder, right-back, striker and possibly another central midfielder to bring in before August 31, it would free up funds to spend elsewhere, by which time next summer Arsenal will be a Champions League club again and have loads of money spare.

That’s right, isn’t it?