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title: "Arsenal fans slam Bernd Leno following club birthday post"
canonical: "https://readarsenal.com/2020/03/05/arsenal-fans-slam-bernd-leno-following-club-birthday-post/"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Elliott Cuff"
section: "Articles"
published: "2020-03-05T13:00:00Z"
modified: "2020-03-05T13:00:00Z"
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# Arsenal fans slam Bernd Leno following club birthday post

Several Arsenal fans have taken the opportunity to slam goalkeeper Bernd Leno, following the club’s tweet celebrating his birthday.

The German, who turned 28 on Wednesday, hasn’t always been held in high regard by many of the Arsenal fan base, with [Leno having been criticised](https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1222067/Arsenal-fans-Bernd-leno-Chelsea-Jorginho-Tammy-Abraham) on several occasions throughout the season.

Having signed from Bayer Leverkusen in 2018 for [just shy of £20 million](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/19/arsenal-bayer-leverkusen-bernd-leno), the Germany international has been an ever-present fixture in Arsenal’s side, having played every Premier League game since [making his debut against Watford](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bernd-leno/leistungsdaten/spieler/72476/plus/0?saison=2018) in late September last season.

Leno succeeded Petr Cech, who [himself wasn’t immune to fan criticism](https://thisisfutbol.com/2018/04/blogs/premier-league/arsenal-fans-slam-cech/), and following Arsenal’s tweet celebrating Leno’s birthday, a number of fans have taken the opportunity to pick fault and criticise the shot-stopper, blaming him for both the club’s disappointing Premier League campaign as well as their failure to progress past Olympiakos in the Europa League last week.

> Twitter: @Arsenal @Bernd\_Leno flops in big games. (@AliBalo24467211)

> Twitter: @Arsenal @Bernd\_Leno leave my club (@DingzinhoV3)

> Twitter: @Arsenal @Bernd\_Leno 28 and still a very incompetent goalkeeper, only good when we are down 2-0, cost our season tw… https://t.co/wlUQDnVCKj (@Wunyeezus)

> Twitter: @afcevan @Arsenal @Bernd\_Leno i’d rather have Pope or Henderson… Leno only saves us when we have already been out of the game (@Loago96)

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