After years of constructing their workforce, Arsenal presently area one among, if not one of the best, workforce within the Premier League.
Some could argue that Liverpool or Manchester Metropolis have a stronger beginning line-up, however in relation to true high quality, the Gunners are by far one of the best.
For instance, they’re presently prime of the desk however with out membership captain Martin Odegaard. He regarded nice within the few video games he performed earlier than his MCL damage.
Furthermore, Mikel Arteta already has a participant in at the moment’s squad who he feels is destined to sooner or later take the Norwegian’s armband and jersey quantity.
Arsenal’s greatest quantity 8
Arsenal are such an enormous membership that over time there have been some actually nice gamers to play within the well-known purple and white, and there have been some distinctive gamers to put on the quantity 8 shirt.
Each fan has a special prime three gamers with this quantity, however on this case, quantity three goes to Aaron Ramsey, who is not precisely a legend, however is certainly a cult hero.
The Wales worldwide wore the shirt from the 16/17 to 18/19 seasons, and though he didn’t win the league throughout his time in North London, he received the FA Cup 3 times.
Moreover, he scored the profitable objectives towards Hull Metropolis and Chelsea, so the 2010s would have been a lot darker for the Gunners with out him.
Subsequent up is Freddie Ljungberg, a real legend who even served because the membership’s interim supervisor in 2019.
The Swedish celebrity wore the quantity from season 98/99 to season 06/07, throughout which period he made 328 appearances, scored 72 objectives and supplied 40 assists, profitable two league titles, three FA Cups and two Participant of the 12 months awards with the membership.
Lastly, in relation to essentially the most iconic quantity eight within the Gunners’ illustrious historical past, it is not possible to disregard Arsenal himself, Ian Wright.
The legendary centre-forward wore the shirt for many of his time at Highbury and wore it in 1997 when he broke Cliff Bastin’s goalscoring document, which was later damaged once more by a French participant.
For now, that is the highest three, but when Odegaard leads Arsenal to the title this season, there is a good likelihood Odegaard will change Ramsey, and one among his team-mates might snatch No. 8 from him in just a few years.
Arsenal’s future No. 8
There are a number of choices for who might take over the quantity eight shirt from Odegaard within the present Arsenal squad sooner or later, from Ethan Nwaneri to Max Daumann.
Nonetheless, the previous is prone to inherit Ten, and the latter could possibly be the proper long-term successor to Bukayo Saka.
Due to this fact, it appears more likely that the Norwegian’s shirt will land on Miles Lewis-Skelly.
In any case, he has performed extraordinarily properly as a left-back over the previous 12 months or so, however everyone knows very properly that essentially the most performed place within the academy, and the place he’s anticipated to maneuver to sooner or later, is central midfield.
And as if anybody wanted extra convincing of his potential to vary a recreation from midfield, he did simply that towards Atletico Madrid.
Simply seven minutes after Gabriel Magalhães scored the opening purpose, the 19-year-old monster picked up the ball within the heart of the park, raced previous half of the Atleti workforce, and fed Gabriel Martinelli with the proper move to fit the ball into the again of the purpose.
On prime of that, he additionally proved to be a lot harder and extra keen to throw his weight round than individuals would count on from a participant his age.
Lewis Skelly’s Arsenal document | |
|---|---|
Look | 47 |
begins | 29 |
minutes | 2659 minutes |
the purpose | 1 |
help | 4 |
Factors per recreation | 2.13 |
All stats by way of Transfermarkt | |
This fearlessness and unbelievable self-confidence made him an vital a part of this workforce early on in his profession and is why Arsenal membership officers are already calling him their ‘future captain’.
These traits have additionally made him an enormous fan of England supervisor Thomas Tuchel, and with him profitable six senior caps with the Three Lions, there’s a good likelihood he shall be on the airplane for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup.
In any case, it is nonetheless early in his profession, nevertheless it’s clear that Lewis-Skelly is a future midfielder, and if he continues to carry out like this, it feels inevitable that he’ll change into Arsenal’s subsequent quantity eight.
