Arteta cooked the Hybrid Wilshere & Xhaka in Arsenal’s “fearless” star

Despite the fact that Arsenal Sit another in Premier league Table and are in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, this was one of the most difficult seasons Mikel ArtetaTo date, managerial career.

It all started with a bizarre red card for Declan Rice against Brighton in the early stages of the campaign, sent to hit the ball.

There was not much arsenal passed from that moment. The rifles saw Leandro Trossard also sent to hit the ball against Man City, William Saliba gave his sentence to grazing his head with Joao Pedro in a return match against Brighton and a whole series of injuries.

Bukayo Saka has been missing from December, Martin Odegaard has endured a few months with ankle problem, while Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz – the only central center of the club – went out to the season.

How lucky is Mikel? It’s seemingly not very good.

Still, there was one positive, and it is that Arsenal may have found its answer to Granite xhaka question.

How can Arsenal fill their granite xhaka void

After the Swiss international left Emirates Stadium after 2023 after his best career in the last third, there was not too much care for the future of his position.

Kai Havertz – Signature of £ 65m from Chelsea – At first he was purchased to fill the free place in the middle, but he became a striker – while Declan Rice, Mega supplement £ 105mIt was moved forward to the left role 8 2024/25. The problem with the rice is that the right foot brings it inside more than you want from that role.

Another solution is Mikel Merino, who is also signed with the aim of improving their game on the left side of the field. The left leg machine and a duel, the signs looked great before he performed on the field, but did not truly trigger the Spaniard in his debut campaign. In fact, like Havertz, he looked more vibrant when he played as a central striker.

Then you have Oleksandra Zinchenko, who we are honest, he did not get a righteous opportunity in his natural position in the middle of the field.

The Ukrainian has shown against PSV’s second part of their Champions League, for the last 16 years that he is still a central midfielder, scoring the initial goal in a beautiful way.

Although the rice is intelligent enough and has a mentality to continue to improve in the left 8 roles, maybe it’s Myles Lewis-Skelly Who could fulfill this role in due course.

Arsenal’s new Granite Xhaka and Jack Wilshere Hybrid

Arsenal spent the best part of £ 200m on Rice trio, Havertz and Merino. Therefore, it is quite typical that the solution can come from the Academy, so it does not cost Arththa and CO none of the penny.

This is because the 18-year-old superstar, Lewis-Skelly, a young individual Rice described as “fearless”It seems that the future of Arsenal’s midfielder could be.

The teenager broke through as the left back of this term and did seriously well, scoring a goal against Manchester City, and then found his back on his debut in England against Albania last Friday.

However, despite being so impressive in this role, his future should be in the middle of the field. He is a midfielder by store and it helped him play that left back to perfection.

He enters the center pockets, can avoid printing, and also has a passage in his cabinet. In short, the young man has a lot of everything you want from players who wants to fill in Void Xhaka. What is crucial, and he is the left leg and forward.

Like Xhake, he is a particularly progressive passerby, Significantly making 4.38 progressive passages on 90 in the upper flight in this term. For context, The Swiss midfielder made 5.89 During the last season in the Premier League. The warning for Lewis-Skelly is to play further, which means that his numbers should grow if he is given more license in the last third.

That was said, there is also a little Jack Wilshere teenager Arsenal, which is not just because they both came through Hale end Academy.

Wilshere – like Lewis -skelly – to the left and both move in a very similar way. The first one had the ability to change speed in an instant to break past the player, and his close control was excellent, which was incredibly difficult to get the ball from him.

As a result, it was broken several times in 90 minutes (3.6) than any other Premier League player In the 2017/18 campaign. Englishman Career average was 1.7 times per game. Compare it to Lewis-Skelly; Was released 1.6 times per gameThe second highest rate in Arsenal behind only Bukayo Saka (2 times per game) during 2024/25.

They have that hard -working art calls for a misdemeanor and manipulating their body to start contact and drain the ball from his opponent before they can push it and win it.

He already boasts 26 appearances of the first team in his name, the future is certainly bright for Lewis-Skelly, a player who boasts the best qualities of Xhak and Wilshere.

From anyone in this composition, he looks like the most natural heir to the role of the left 8. Let that happen, Arthte.