Recently many academy players are leaving Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal squad to find more playing time in other teams.
Why youngsters are leaving Arsenal?
At this moment Arsenal and Mikel Arteta are clearly focusing on winning English Premier League and they are doing whatever it takes to achieve that. In entire this process they are forgetting their academy players. On top of that they are buying players from outside.
Same thing happened with rising Arsenal talent Emile Smith Rowe. Despite being linked with teams like West Ham, Fulham, Emile Smith Rowe changed his mind before the pre-season. His actions were making it clear that he will not be leaving Arsenal and he wanted to stay and fight for his place at the North London club.
Multiple reports were claiming that the young English midfielder started his pre-season training before the entire Arsenal squad. For the pre-season training Mikel Arteta took players like Jurien Timber, Ben White, Fabio Viera to Mallorca. But Smith Rowe joined the pre-season camp one week before them. This action clarifies the intention of the young midfielder. He wanted to train as much as possible to be in his best possible shape.
As the pre-season games started, things didn’t go well for the young Englishman. It seems that Arsenal have decided to sell him. According to football.london, Arsenal have set a price tag of £35m for Emile Smith Rowe.
Few days ago Arsenal played their first pre-season game against another Premier League side Bournemouth where Mikel Arteta benched Emile Smith Rowe. In that game, the Gunners drew with the Cherries. So, the game was extended to tie-breaker where Arsenal defeated Bournemouth with a score line of 5-4.
Arsenal didn’t give Smith Row a chance to play his last game for the Gunners. Younger players like Ethan Nwaneri, Lewis Brown, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Ayden Heaven, Omari Hutchinson, Cozier Duberry, and Reuell Walters.
Recently Cozier Dubell has joined Brighton Hove Albion and Reuell Walters has joined Luto Town. The Gunners offered a scholarship contract to 16 year old Arsenal prospect Chibo Martin but he rejected the offer. All these things indicate one thing and that is lack of chance in Arteta’s team.
Mikel Arteta and the academy players
When Mikel Arteta was building a new project at Arsenal, players like Emile Smith Rowe, Bukayo Saka, Eddie Nketiah, Joe Willock were the revelations for the gunners. Few of them made a permanent place in the first team.
Recently Arsenal have signed a lot players for the midfield position and they are performing well. For these reasons the homegrown talents are falling down in the pecking order.
Now a homegrown talent like Emile Smith Rowe is leaving Arsenal and Joining Fulham. This is certainly not a good news for the Gunners. The younger players will get a bad impression from this incident.
After Emile Smith Rowe, Arsenal is loosing another academy graduate to a Premier League rival because Lewis Brown is going to join West Ham United. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is loosing the most talented players from the academy. The fans are unhappy about this fact.
The Hammers have recently appointed Julen Loptegui as their new manager. He is building a new project at West Ham. According to multiple reports, the Spaniard want reinforcements at two major positions. One is at the centre back position and another one is at the left back position. So, West Ham are desperate to sign the young Arsenal academy product to reinforce their backline. On top of that the Hammers need a backup for Emerson Palmieri at the Left back position.
Lewis Brown has raised through the ranks of Arsenal academy and has become a leader for their under 19 team.
According to multiple sources it is being said that the 18 year old will sign a new deal on Monday. He is the grandson of the a West Ham legend Ken Brown who made 474 appearances. His entire family supports West Ham. So, it was a easy decision for the young defender.
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