Jamie O’Hara ranks two ‘world class’ midfielders ahead of Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka

Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara believes Bukayo Saka is not satellite people and puts Chelsea’s Cole Palmer up of the Arsenal winger.

Saka is acceptable to play different integral relation successful Arsenal’s propulsion to triumph the Premier League rubric and has made an fantabulous commencement to the run with 3 goals and 7 assists successful each competitions truthful far.

Palmer, meanwhile, continues to beryllium Chelsea’s prima antheral and has already scored six goals successful the Premier League this term.

O’Hara feels some Palmer and Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal, who was 1 of Spain’s prima players astatine Euro 2024 successful the summer, are up of Saka.

‘Bukayo Saka isn’t satellite class,’ O’Hara told Grosvenor Sport.

‘He’s a large subordinate successful a precise bully team, but I look astatine guys similar Cole Palmer and Lamine Yamal, who successful my sentiment are world-class players. They’re a level supra Saka – it’s arsenic elemental arsenic that.

‘Yamal looks acceptable to beryllium the prima antheral astatine Barcelona for the coming years and you cognize they’ll triumph trophies with him, truthful I’d person him implicit Saka for starters.

‘Palmer besides looks similar the champion subordinate successful the Premier League, which means you tin reason that helium is the champion subordinate successful the world.

‘I mightiness beryllium getting carried distant there, but Palmer looks similar helium tin bash thing connected a shot pitch, thing fazes him astatine all. As I said, Saka is simply a large player, but Palmer is different level.’

O’Hara besides dismissed suggestions that Arsenal should beryllium considered Premier League rubric favourites owed to Manchester City losing Rodri done injury.

‘Let’s get this right, Arsenal are not favourites for this rubric – they haven’t won it for astir 20 years!’ helium said.

‘Look, they’ve started good but it’s truthful aboriginal on, there’s much teams that person improved this play and it won’t beryllium a two-horse race. Arsenal fans saying it’s their year, travel on, we are six weeks in.

‘Manchester City person won the Premier League 4 times connected the bounce; they person the champion starting squad and squad. They are the favourites for maine and volition get the occupation done successful the end, adjacent without Rodri successful their team.’

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