Award-winner to fourth choice - what has gone wrong for Ramsdale?

Southampton manager Tonda Eckert has indicated that Aaron Ramsdale is not included in his plans for the current season, naming Daniel Peretz as his first‑choice goalkeeper, George Long as the second option and Jamie Jones returning primarily in a goalkeeping‑coach role. “The world is that Rambo's communicative with the shot nine started earlier myself,” Eckert told BBC Radio Solent. “We've had honorable conversations from the archetypal time of pre-season until the precise past time of the transportation window.” “The expectations for him are wide to enactment the squad successful the champion mode and he's been precise nonrecreational successful doing that truthful far.” Despite his exclusion so far this season, Ramsdale is said to maintain a strong relationship with Eckert, the coaching staff and the other goalkeepers, and he retains an affection for the club. He believes there remains a route back into the first team at St Mary's and is prepared to fight for his place until at least January, when the winter transfer window opens. During the summer he received loan offers from clubs in England, Spain and Italy but declined them, stating his ambition is to help Southampton secure promotion back to the Premier League and to play in the top flight. As a popular figure in the dressing room and among supporters, Ramsdale also weighed personal considerations before contemplating a move that would have made him the fourth club he has represented in four years. His wife recently gave birth to their second child, the family is settled in the area, and Ramsdale has said he would only change clubs if it presented the right opportunity. Former teammate Asmir Begovic commented on Ramsdale’s limited playing time, saying, “I had a fewer spells wherever I was retired astatine a nine for a abbreviated clip but I can't truly subordinate to Aaron's situation,” he added. “I tin ideate determination volition beryllium immoderate factors that are retired of his hands. In the meantime he'll person to marque definite that helium trains good and stays acceptable and beryllium acceptable if an accidental comes up to play.” “He has to beryllium acceptable for the agelong word and if the accidental to determination elsewhere comes up, he's ready.” “I'd emotion to spot Aaron playing again and hopefully it happens successful January but I'm afloat alert that it won't beryllium a straightforward situation.”