Host Roger Bennett relayed a question from a Gunners fan asking Turner what he made of Mikel Arteta’s admission that there were two games in which he wanted to make a mid-game goalkeeper substitution.
“I don’t know, I mean it doesn’t make me feel any better or worse about anything, to be honest” Said Turner.
“My time at Arsenal was great. I learned a lot. I wish I played more obviously, but to be in a title charge and have all those amazing memories, you couldn’t even really write it up”
“So yeah, it would have been nice, I guess. I don’t know, but at the end of the day, ‘show me don’t tell me’, you know what I mean?”
For context, Arteta made the admission after he replaced Aaron Ramsdale with David Raya in between the Arsenal sticks against Everton in September.
“One of [my regrets] is that on two occasions I felt after 60 minutes and 85 minutes in two games in this period to change the keeper in that moment and I didn’t do it,” Arteta said – as per The Mirror – after the 1-0 win”
“I didn’t have the courage to do it. And we drew those games and I was so unhappy and someone is going to do it (soon) and maybe it [the reaction] will be, ‘oh! That is strange. Why?’
“Why not? Tell me why not. You have all the qualities in another goalkeeper and you want to do something to change the momentum, do it. It is a regret that I have.”
