Arsenal fans left fuming over the club’s decision to let Emiliano Martinez leave after his Copa America heroics, claims to sack Mikel Arteta arise


Arsenal fans left fuming over the club’s decision to let Emiliano Martinez leave after his Copa America heroics, claims to sack Mikel Arteta arise

Arsenal fans left fuming over the club's decision to let Emiliano Martinez leave after his Copa America heroics, claims to sack Mikel Arteta arise

Arsenal fans are left furious over the manager Mikel Arteta’s decision to sell Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez to Aston Villa last summer, following his incredible performance in the Copa America final and also his heroics throughout the course of the tournament.

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Arsenal always have had a bad reputation of selling players that they consider as surplus in their team, and there have been repeated incidences of them to go on and become top-class players in another team.

Bayern winger Serge Gnabry and Donyell are recent incidents of players being offloaded before succeeding at another club, and Argentine goalkeeper Martinez is the latest to find a greener patch away from the Emirates at Villa Park.

‘He should be sacked’ claims arise against Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta after his decision to sell Emiliano Martinez last summer

Emiliano Martinez won the Golden gloves for his heroics in the 2021 Copa America

Emiliano Martinez played a crucial role for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal as they went onto lift their 14th FA Cup title, following wins against Manchester City and Chelsea, replacing injured first team keeper Bernd Leno. As a result, a large section of the Gunners’ called for Leno to remain on the bench whenever he returned from his injury and Emiliano Martinez be given the game time.

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However, Arteta decided against Emiliano’s stay at the club, giving the German Leno his place back in the squad for the 2020/21 campaign, and the allowed Martinez to be transferred to Aston Villa last season, in the search for first team chance.

Emiliano enjoyed an very productive season with Aston Villa in the 2020-21 Premier League season, as he kept 15 clean sheets for Dean Smith’s side throughout the course of the league.

Martinez went onto be named in Argentina’s Copa America 2021 squad, and Argentina eventually went onto win the tournament as they end their trophy draught. Emiliano had an incredible tournament, and played a crucial part in the final against Brazil, following his tiebreaker heroics against Colombia in the semifinals, saving three of the five.

Emiliano Martinez continue to answer everyone who had a hand in his transfer away from Arsenal, after sending 10 years at the Emirates.

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After the full-time whistle, Arsenal fans took to Twitter to voice their frustration at the club’s decision, and even made claims to sack manager Mikel Arteta and chief executive Edu Gaspar, criticizing them for their indecision.

“We have Emi, who is a phenomenon,” Messi was quick to harbour praise on Emiliano Martinez.

“We trusted him. We achieved the goal of being able to play all the games and now we are going to the final.” Messi added as he went onto win his first international trophy.

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