Afternoon guys.
The surprise of the season last year wasn’t winning the Premier League, Max Dowman scoring against Everton or David Raya winning the golden glove award. No, it was the emergence of Myles Lewis-Skelly in central midfield. Not because I didn’t think he could play in that position but because it seemed to me that Mikel Arteta was never going to give him the chance to do so. After a few must win Premier League fixtures in which he was part of the team to secure the points needed to win the title, he was selected to play in the Champions League final against PSG. An Arsenal team which stopped a strong PSG team beating us over 120mins.
Yet now, a move away from the club is being rumoured. As is a move away for Ethan Nwaneri by the way. I don’t know if either is true but I sure as heck hope not. What is the point of having an academy if when players become very good, we sell them? Even more crazy in my opinion would be selling them just to make for another player who might turn out to be an overpriced dud?
Very good Hale End players are like gold dust I think and when they do come along, I always want to see them playing in red and white, not at Chelsea or Man Utd and if Myles ends up at either club, which is what is being suggested, I think I’ll lose faith in what Arsenal FC are trying to achieve, or rather how they are trying to achieve it.
I’ve spent the last 10/15 years moaning and groaning about how the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea have constantly throw good money after bad to win trophies but are we not now verging on doing the same?
If Arsenal can cast aside talent like Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri at 19 years old instead of coaching them, improving them as the years go by, what does say about our coaches or indeed the manager? What does it say about the club, the same club which has spent millions of pounds on what I consider to be some bang average players.
Madueke or Nwaneri? Nwaneri all day long. Madueke or Dowman? The latter of course.
Havertz or Nwaneri? Yes, Nwaneri for me.
With Lewis-Skelly, it doesn’t need to be an and/or because we need four midfielders players to get us through a busy season. That is unless Arteta wants to overplay players to the point of collapse again. Plus, we have a crock in Riccardo Calafiori who if he breaks down again, Lewis-Skelly might be needed in defence.
Surely Arsenal should be building on what was achieved last season, not ripping part of it up and starting again.
Moan over.
