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The Spaniard is set to sign for the Gunners after they agreed a deal with Brentford for the 27-year-old.
Though the Bees were seeking around £40m, Arsenal are thought to have agreed a fee worth around £30m.
Raya will compete with Ramsdale for the no.1 spot and the move has raised eyebrows in some quarters.
Though there’s no doubting Raya’s quality, it was a surprise to see Arteta move for a goalkeeper that had been first choice at a rival Premier League club.
But Neville says that shows Arsenal’s ambition and says Ramsdale’s ‘erratic’ performances at the tail-end of the last campaign convinced Arteta he needed competition.
‘That actually really impressed me the other day because I thought, although Ramsdale did struggle a little bit in the last five or 10 games and I actually liked Raya at Brentford, so I thought the idea of signing him was another sort of message that he’s not taking what happened last season lightly,’ Neville told the Overlap.
‘The things that caused them a problem were minor details in the last 10 games, but Ramsdale was one of those issues in those last 10 games.
‘He was erratic and you can’t have that with a keeper with 10 games to go. You can’t have an erratic goalkeeper.’
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