Theo Walcott names the five best young Premier League players including two Arsenal stars

Theo Walcott believes Arsenal’s emerging teenage talents Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly are presently among the 5 champion young players successful the Premier League.

The Gunners’ caller bully signifier has, successful part, been propelled by the injection enthusiasm and vigor provided by the 2 latest gems to look from the club’s prolific Hale End Academy.

Both players were connected the scoresheet successful Sunday’s landmark 5-1 thrashing of Manchester City and Walcott his delighted to spot his erstwhile teammate, Mikel Arteta, statesman to enactment his religion successful the adjacent generation.

‘Ethan Nwaneri for maine has started of his vocation precise handsomely,’ the erstwhile England winger told BBC Sport.

‘Myles Lewis-Skelly has travel into his own, they’re players who are present to enactment astatine Arsenal and it’s large to spot young endowment coming through.

‘It’s precise akin to the Arsene Wenger epoch erstwhile helium utilized to bring young talent, truthful Mikel Arteta is doing thing close and the academy too.’

The Arsenal brace are acold from the lone youngsters to beryllium lighting up the league this play with Brighton’s Carlos Baleba and Ipswich’s Liam Delap besides impressing Walcott, portion helium besides believes Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez volition beryllium firmly connected Liverpool’s radar travel the summer.

He said: ‘Carlos Baleba astatine Bright and Liam Delap who is simply a spot akin to and aged schoolhouse No.9 similar Harry Kane. He ever is simply a menace successful down and cuases defenders each sorts of problems. It’s not conscionable that. It’s his attitude, helium likes to enactment hard, gets a batch of goals.

‘Put him successful a team, and nary disrespect to Ipswich, that’s going to supply him a batch much chances but he’s going to person a very, precise palmy career. Not conscionable for his nine but for his state arsenic well.

‘Finally, Kerkez, he’s a subordinate I wouldn’t person fancied playing against due to the fact that helium tin support but besides attack. He’s got gait and I’m definite Liverpool volition beryllium looking for a left-back astatine immoderate constituent to regenerate Robertson.’

Lewis-Skelly, meanwhile, has dominated the headlines pursuing his archetypal extremity for Arsenal connected Sunday but alternatively than absorption connected the finer points of a superb idiosyncratic effort, the fallout has mostly centered connected his celebration.

While the determination to imitate Erling Haaland has angered immoderate pundits, erstwhile Arsenal skipper William Gallas believes the teen was afloat justified successful giving City’s extremity instrumentality a sensation of his ain medicine.

He told Prime Casino: ‘What a show from a lad who has turned into a man. The Haaland celebration, the zen thing? We cognize helium did it due to the fact that of what Haaland said astir him astatine the extremity of the lucifer earlier successful the season. ‘Who the F are you,’ Haaland said, good helium knows now, that’s for sure. It was a spot provocative, but that is the tone of the rivalry.

‘The Arsenal players volition person remembered what Haaland did. Everyone is present talking astir Lewis-Skelly, and rightly truthful due to the fact that helium had a large crippled against City. He was defending precise good against his opponent. When you people successful a large game, and astatine the extremity you triumph that game, everybody is going to talk astir you.

‘His performances, not lone against City, but whenever helium has played person been excellent, but possibly helium was flying nether the radar a bit. That’s wherefore for me, arsenic a defender, it was ever important to support precise well, but astatine the aforesaid clip if I had the chance, I wanted to people due to the fact that I cognize radical are going to talk astir me.

‘So that’s wherefore radical are present talking astir Myles Lewis-Selly. It’s the aforesaid with Gabriel – erstwhile helium had a bully show and helium scored, everybody speaks astir him. The young boy, Lewis-Skelly, I deliberation he’s connected the close path. He inactive has to improve, that is for sure.

‘He inactive has to amended his football, and to beryllium the fig 1 for a agelong time, due to the fact that we’ve seen it hap to truthful galore young players before, aft 1 play erstwhile radical talk astir you, the media praises you, you tin beryllium a small spot much relaxed and suffer your focus.

‘Football changes precise quickly. There’s ever a subordinate acceptable to instrumentality your spot, and they are truly bare to beryllium successful the archetypal team, truthful that’s wherefore helium has to support his absorption arsenic overmuch arsenic helium can.’

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