Award-winner to fourth choice - what has gone wrong for Ramsdale?
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From challenging for the Premier League with Arsenal and playing for England, Aaron Ramsdale is now Southampton's fourth-choice goalkeeper.
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- From challenging for the Premier League with Arsenal and playing for England, Aaron Ramsdale is now Southampton's fourth-choice goalkeeper.
In April 2023, Aaron Ramsdale was within touching distance of winning the Premier League with Arsenal.
But the goalkeeper made a costly error for the Gunners to give away the opening goal in a 3-3 draw with Southampton at Emirates Stadium which contributed to the demise of Arsenal's 2022-23 title bid.
If Arsenal had won that game, the title would have been in their hands. Instead, the draw handed the initiative to Manchester City, who took full advantage.
It was a mistake which perhaps also signalled the beginning of the end for Ramsdale under Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.
Four months later, the north London club brought in David Raya from Brentford and the Spaniard quickly claimed the number one spot.
And in a somewhat unfortunate poetic twist, it is the Saints where Ramsdale finds himself completely out of favour three years on as the fourth-choice goalkeeper at a Championship club.
From an England international on the cusp of greatness, Ramsdale is now in the almost unthinkable situation of being without senior football this season in the prime of his career at the age of 28.
So why has Ramsdale had such a fall from grace and where have things gone wrong?
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Source: BBC.
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