Arsenal star Myles Lewis-Skelly has been a revelation for Mikel Arteta this season.
The 18-year-old has made the inverted left-back position within the Gunners’ set-up his personal, preserving out summer time signing Riccardo Calafiori from the beginning line-up and incomes his first two senior worldwide caps over the previous week.
However issues may very well be about to alter for the teen, ranked at no.40 in FourFourTwo’s record of probably the most thrilling youngsters to look at this season final 12 months
Arsenal teen Myles Lewis-Skelly may very well be set for a contemporary position
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta is already planning for subsequent season (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Lewis-Skelly has received plaudits this time period for his unbelievable means in duels, his highly effective operating fashion and his infectious persona .
The Hale Finish academy graduate stepped in for Arsenal throughout an damage disaster and has been preserving not simply Calafiori out of the primary workforce however the likes of Oleksandr Zinchenko, Kieran Tierney and Jakub Kiwior. Points with crimson playing cards early on in his profession, nevertheless, have proven his lack of expertise.
Riccardo Calafiori is regarded as the long-term possibility at left-back (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Similar to Bukayo Saka earlier than, Arteta has thrown Lewis-Skelly in at left-back understanding that his long-term place might lie elsewhere. The Camberwell native performed in midfield all through his youth profession – and with switch rumours circling that Arsenal may very well be in for one more left-back, it suggests Lewis-Skelly may be set for a swap.
Tuttomercatoweb Juventus , regardless of the wealth of choices that Arteta has in that place. The 25-year-old is snug on each flanks and ambipedal however has performed 26 instances at left-back this season, versus 5 on the opposite aspect.
Such a transfer may nicely be the making of Lewis-Skelly as a midfielder, with the teen in a position to slot into the left-sided no.8 position in Arteta’s 4-3-3 .
It appears as if Zinchenko, Tierney and Kiwior will all depart, leaving Calafiori, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Jurrien Timber as choices at left-back, with Timber, Tomiyasu and Ben White on the best. In midfield, nevertheless, the doubtless exits of Thomas Partey and Jorginho open up the potential for one other participant within the centre.
Juventus defender Andrea Cambiaso is a goal for Arsenal (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
It is subsequently an possibility that Arsenal will head into subsequent season with Declan Rice and Lewis-Skelly because the first- and second-choice left-sided central midfielders, with rumoured new arrival Martin Zubimendi the first-choice no.6 , and Rice in a position to cowl the deepest midfield place.
FourFourTwo understands that Arsenal should not specializing in signing a brand new no.8 this summer time, with the positions of centre-forward and defensive midfield larger priorities.
This may very well be useful not simply to Lewis-Skelly’s growth as a midfielder, but additionally present a transparent pathway for fellow Hale Enders Ethan Nwaneri and Max Dowman to stake a declare within the centre for Arteta.
Cambiaso is price €40 million, as per Transfermarkt
