{"id":724317,"date":"2026-08-02T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:38:11","slug":"man-utd-launch-shock-raid-for-arsenal-defender-as-mikel-arteta-faces-transfer-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724317\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd launch SHOCK raid for Arsenal defender as Mikel Arteta faces transfer dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Lewis-Skelly was a key figure in the final weeks of the season, helping Arsenal clinch their first Premier League crown since 2004, he struggled for consistent minutes earlier in the year. Arteta previously addressed the situation, stating: “I\u2019ve been tough on him. He had a spectacular season last year when he jumped into the first team. He had some difficult moments after that, but he stayed very humble, very focused, very aligned with what we wanted to do, and I knew he was ready. He\u2019s been showing in training every day the opportunities that he had to play.”<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his hesitation to deploy the 19-year-old in a midfield role following a spectacular display in a 3-0 win against Fulham last season<\/a>, Arteta added: “Probably I don\u2019t have a clue and maybe I should have done it earlier, I don\u2019t know. But I have to do things when I believe that the player is ready, the team is ready and the opponent is the right one to play with him in that position. We\u2019ve done it today, it\u2019s the first time.<\/p>\n

“It was a big risk because I knew what was going to happen. If it works it’s great, if we’d have lost the game – ‘How do you play a kid at this age in this scenario in a position he hasn’t played?’ I knew that but I had the feeling it was the right game for him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Lewis-Skelly was a key figure in the final weeks of the season, helping Arsenal clinch their first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[220,239482,59,239481,349,221,101,568,56,54,55,53893],"class_list":["post-724317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-b-guimaraes","tag-gb","tag-m-lewis-skelly","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vinicius-junior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}