{"id":810331,"date":"2026-08-11T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810331\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:40:11","slug":"arsenals-myles-lewis-skelly-offered-to-manchester-united-as-left-back-solution-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810331\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s Myles Lewis-Skelly offered to Manchester United as left-back solution | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/manchester-united\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> as a potential left-back option, with Arsenal wishing to recoup some of the \u00a375m paid to Newcastle for Bruno Guimar\u00e3es.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Chelsea, it is understood, have also been made aware of the 19-year-old\u2019s availability. Lewis-Skelly won the Premier League under Mikel Arteta last term, but whether the west London club will make a move for him is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Lewis-Skelly, who made only five league starts and 36 appearances in all competitions in 2025-26, signed a five-year contract last summer. His prospective price is thought to be in the region of \u00a345m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">This is within the range of finance United have spent so far this summer, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/14\/youri-tielemans-signs-manchester-united-aston-villa\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Youri Tielemans\u2019s \u00a335m move<\/a> from Aston Villa and Andrey Santos\u2019s arrival for \u00a348m plus \u00a32m of add-ons from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Newcastle\u2019s Lewis Hall remains of prime interest for United but, after losing Guimar\u00e3es, Sandro Tonali to Tottenham, and Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, the new Newcastle manager, Matthias Jaissle, is intent the 21-year-old England international does not also depart<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">RB Leipzig\u2019s 28-year-old left-back David Raum is another in the position United may assess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Chelsea have already had a busy summer in the market, having spent over \u00a3300m on a raft of new signings. Maxence Lacroix and Marco Palestra have been brought in to bolster the centre and right of the defence, respectively, while Morgan Rogers became the club\u2019s record signing at a cost of \u00a3117m.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-8\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | Every weekday<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vf9hps\">Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1r7my33\">Kick off your evenings with the Guardian&#8217;s take on the world of football<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782463269_82_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-xiq31o\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-8\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">But Xabi Alonso\u2019s side have a hole on the left of their defence after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/14\/real-madrid-marc-cucurella-chelsea-transfer-window-football\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Cucurella\u2019s \u00a352m move to Real Madrid<\/a>. The 20-year-old Jorrel Hato, who featured for the Netherlands at the World Cup, was Cucurella\u2019s deputy at left-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to Manchester United as a potential left-back option, with Arsenal wishing to recoup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-810331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}