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Jun 26, 2025, 07:16 AM ET
Myles Lewis-Skelly has signed a caller semipermanent declaration astatine Arsenal, the Premier League nine confirmed connected Thursday.
The 18-year-old younker merchandise enjoyed a breakout 2024-25 season, coming into Mikel Arteta's broadside arsenic an inverted left-back and making 39 appearances, portion besides debuting for the England elder team.
Lewis-Skelly's erstwhile woody expired successful 2026 and helium has agreed to improved terms. Arsenal person not specified the magnitude of the contract, though it is reported to beryllium 5 years.
"I'm truthful arrogant and happy," Lewis-Skelly said. "I cognize those words are simple, but I deliberation they sum up however I consciousness signing for this club. I'm a instrumentality and it's similar a imagination travel true.
"I've embodied the values of Hale End and travel through. I've inactive got a batch of years up of me, truthful if I tin support staying humble and being a bully person, that's the astir important happening to me.
"I cognize I've taken a batch of acquisition from the games astir the affirmative moments, the mistakes that I've made. I'm decidedly much acceptable present for the adjacent season. I conscionable privation to support learning and support improving.
"I privation a legacy. I privation to triumph everything determination is to triumph successful the game. I privation to triumph trophies connected the biggest stages whilst being a idiosyncratic that's ever learning and stays grounded, which is truthful important."
Lewis-Skelly featured successful 19 of Arsenal's past 21 Premier League fixtures past play aft breaking into the squad earlier Christmas.
He scored his archetypal extremity for the nine successful the 5-1 triumph implicit Manchester City and earned praise from his manager and teammates amid a fearless playing style, often executing pinpoint passes and daring dribbles from defence.
"For an 18-year-old to beryllium that good, that comfortable, that beardown -- it was similar helium was built successful a lab," Declan Rice said earlier this year.
His performances earned an England call-up, and -- 20 minutes into his debut -- helium scored the archetypal extremity of Thomas Tuchel's reign successful a 2-0 triumph implicit Albania.
