What the hell did I say about nothing taking place?
Let’s begin this morning with affirmation of Myles Lewis-Skelly’s new contract, which arrived yesterday. Not a shock, by any means, but it surely’s good to have it official, and there’s no query he deserves it. He had a breakthrough season final day trip, and a brand new 5 yr deal cements his future in North London, and places him on pay-scale that his place as a primary selection participant deserves. Congratulations to him, and the video of him along with his household is de facto pretty.
Chatting with the official web site, he laid out his ambitions for the long run, saying:
I wish to win all the things there’s to win within the sport. I wish to win trophies on the most important levels while being an individual that’s all the time studying and stays grounded, which is so essential.
And he’s adopted a path from Hale Finish to first staff which stays steeped in historical past and romance:
In fact, it’s an honour seeing everybody who’s come earlier than me. I’d simply say that I’ve embodied the values of Hale Finish and are available via. I’ve nonetheless acquired a number of years forward of me, so if I can hold staying humble and being a very good particular person, that’s crucial factor to me.
I realise he’s very real when he talks about staying humble, however after the Haaland factor final season, it’s a pleasant little contact. He was, to some extent, a slight shock package deal as a result of though he’d been totally concerned throughout pre-season, the main target was a bit extra on Ethan Nwaneri – which is type of pure. Attacking gamers are usually within the highlight a bit extra, however over the course of the marketing campaign, Myles actually got here to the fore.
He gained’t be a shock to anybody subsequent day trip. Not domestically, and never in Europe, so now it’s about how his sport develops. Choosing and selecting his moments to show away from the opposition to drive ahead, one thing he did brilliantly final season, however which a few times acquired him in a little bit little bit of bother. That’s advantageous although, it’s all a part of the educational expertise for an 18 yr previous, and he’s such an clever participant you understand he’ll take it on board and look to develop his sport. So, all in all, excellent news, and hopefully the primary of various contract extensions this summer season.
In the meantime, we’ve been linked with a transfer for Valencia centre-half Cristhian Mosquera, with David Ornstein reporting a deal is presently being labored on with the Spanish membership. I noticed a number of ‘Oh look, one other defender!’ feedback, however to me this makes excellent sense. I feel, within the absence of Takehiro Tomiyasu, we’re gentle a right-sided defender on this squad. We needed to play William Saliba in nearly each minute of each sport final season, and when Ben White acquired injured, Jurrien Timber needed to play via the ache at right-back. On paper, these two had been doable back-ups for Saliba, however we lacked a real choice there for many of the season.
So, a younger signing makes some sense. He can are available in, practice, be taught – play some cup video games and achieve expertise because the season goes on. He’s acquired some excellent gamers to work alongside too, which ought to support his improvement, and bodily he appears to be like the half. One other 6’3 defender so as to add to the checklist, and at 20 there’s room to develop a bit there too. I stated on the Arsecast Further final week I felt we would have liked a signing there to actually give us the proper of depth, and this one makes a number of sense.
My intestine feeling about that is that it would simply imply Jakub Kiwior departs. I may very well be flawed, however his inventory is excessive proper now. Arsenal would possibly see it as the appropriate time to money in, and the participant himself in all probability has choices open to him which may not be there if he sticks round to play a squad function subsequent season. Let’s see what occurs, but it surely wouldn’t shock me massively if we began to listen to tales about him within the coming weeks.
Anyway, it appears to be like, after what has occurred this week, that the Arsenal switch cake is nicely and really being baked. We’ve sorted out the goalkeeper state of affairs, we’ve basically added two central midfielders, and now a centre-half. All gamers I feel we’d like and what appears apparent is that the supervisor and the brand new sporting director are resolute by way of constructing a squad with redundancy for each place. Absences value us dearly final season, they usually’re seeking to deal with that.
The cake is okay with these strikes, however now we have to high it. That may solely include the arrival of the brand new striker everybody desires, whether or not it’s Sesko or Gyokeres or another person fully, that’s the icing for this explicit cake. And if there’s a cherry on high, maybe within the form of Eberechi Eze, linked yesterday, or one other winger, then all the higher. These are the ultimate touches to this window. The good Arsenal bake-off seemed prefer it would possibly fall a bit flat, but it surely seems as if we’d find yourself with an actual show-stopper. Fingers crossed.
Proper, I’ll depart it there for now, however there’s a enjoyable Arsecast for you under with Lewis. We needed to decide a staff to lose a sport, and I’d urge you to hear earlier than commenting. Some individuals acquired a bit mad at us for not choosing their favorite worst participant! However there have been sure standards to fulfil, and we defined our selections – a few of them fairly tactical – within the pod itself.
Take pleasure in!
