It clearly isn’t as you sold your best performing goalkeeper for peanuts. If anything you should have cashed in on Leno.
It clearly is because our defence does not look worse, it's pretty much the same.
Martinez is a very solid keeper and is better at crosses than Leno. Everything else they're pretty much the same or Leno is better. Leno saved our asses for 2 years straight before his unfortunate injury. Martinez did a fantastic job for a few months.
Arsenal rely a lot more on gates receipts than other clubs and are owned by somebody who is not known to invest (he had no choice for Partey, now or never transfer).
Martinez was also one of the very few sellable assets we had, we are Contract Rundown FC. What we want to sell doesn't want to leave. The other area we could have made money was at RB with either Bellerin to PSG (laughable offer, they couldnt do anything with FFP) or AMN to Wolves for around the same amount. If Leno is your #1 who has more chances to prove useful over a season ? Martinez or AMN ? It's a no brainer. Martinez did not want to fight for his spot any longer, he wanted to be made number one. There was no market for Leno, he's not going to go to another PL club unless it's a big one no offence to Villa. No german clubs ever inquired about him because his situation was clear all summer.
Chambers/Sokratis should have been moved on but we're talking maybe 10/12m for the lot. It didn't happen for various reasons.
20M for a backup keeper that won't play more than 10/15 games a season is not peanuts in a covid world. Not to Arsenal at least and that's all that matters.
And yes Runarsson is proving to be absolute garbage and will be a #3 probably as soon as this summer if we can get that Brentford guy that our GK coach raves about. Or anybody else.