{"id":328,"date":"2026-03-28T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=328"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:42:47","slug":"man-utd-express-interest-in-arsenal-star-myles-lewis-skelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd express interest in Arsenal star Myles Lewis-Skelly"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Manchester United have expressed interest in signing Arsenal left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly next summer, as per Transfers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lewis-Skelly made his breakthrough during the 2024\u201325 season, taking his chances in an injury-hit campaign.<\/p>\n

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He now finds himself short of regular minutes, less than a year after starting a UEFA Champions League fixture against 15-time winners Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

Although he has started six of Arsenal\u2019s nine Champions League matches, featuring in key wins over Bayern Munich, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Inter Milan, he has managed just 312 minutes in the Premier League this season, effectively third in the pecking order, with his only start coming in a 2\u20131 win over Brighton & Hove Albion in December.<\/p>\n

This has led to speculations about a possible departure to gain more playing time as the transfer window approaches.<\/p>\n

One of the clubs looking to sign Lews-Skelly is Man Utd, according to Fichajes, which claims the 13-time Premier League champions have set their sights on the 19-year-old as a potential option to reinforce their left-back ranks.<\/p>\n

While the Red Devils have other targets, including Crystal Palace\u2019s Tyrick Mitchell, Fulham\u2019s Antonee Robinson, and RB Leipzig\u2019s David Raum, the 19-year-old has been earmarked as the \u2018preferred option\u2019 by the club\u2019s recruitment department, according to the report.<\/p>\n

However, Fichajes adds that Arsenal are reluctant to allow the England international to depart the Emirates Stadium and will only consider offers close to \u00a351m to sanction his departure.<\/p>\n

\u2018Spectacular\u2019 left-back<\/h2>\n

As the summer window nears, pressure is mounting on United\u2019s hierarchy to assemble a squad capable of a title challenge after recent years of inconsistency and subpar performances.<\/p>\n

Before any agreement can be completed, however, United must first come through a demanding end to the campaign, as securing UEFA Champions League qualification will be a crucial factor in attracting their targets.<\/p>\n

United currently have Luke Shaw and Patrick Dorgu as left-back options, but Michael Carrick prefers Dorgu in a more attacking role, where he excelled before his injury.<\/p>\n

The Dane is likely to retain that role upon his return, making a move for a more defensively minded left back essential next summer.<\/p>\n

After putting in a solid shift in Arsenal\u2019s 3-0 win over Madrid last season, Premier League and Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher described Lewis Skelly as \u2018spectacular\u2019 in his post-match analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hence, the versatile defender would be a solid option to immediately slot into United\u2019s backline and potentially phase out Luke Shaw when his deal runs out at the end of next season.<\/p>\n

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Manchester United have expressed interest in signing Arsenal left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly next summer, as per Transfers. Lewis-Skelly made his breakthrough during the 2024\u201325 season, taking his chances in an injury-hit campaign. He now finds himself short of regular minutes, less than a year after starting a UEFA Champions League fixture against 15-time winners Real Madrid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}