David Plowright

🗣️🇩🇰 Peter Schmeichel on Arsenal signing David Raya: “I don't get it. I cannot understand how a manager can come to the conclusion that it's a great thing to have competition for the No 1 shirt. A goalkeeper's position is very reactive. You cannot create anything on your own, you have to wait for things to happen. You're now asking your goalkeeper to prove you're better than the other one. That means you now have to go and do stuff, and you don't want that. It's the one position on the pitch where you just want steady. When you have a competition situation, the keeper also plays that game for himself and for that position, and I don't get it. What you do is you put a lot of insecurity into the two of them. At the same time, having two players challenging for number one, you're also creating potentially a bad atmosphere in the dressing room because it's a straight up competition between two guys who will either start or not play. They need to know if it goes wrong, which it does now and again, everyone makes a mistake and everyone costs a goal, that the manager says, "that's alright, mate, you're still my number one". You need to have that confidence. If you don't, you cannot perform 100% for the team." 🎙️ @bbc5live