Arsenal coaching staff reportedly feel that Emile Smit Rowe could have a future alongside Martin Odegaard in midfield.
The 22-year-old has struggled with injuries this season, missing much of the campaign so far, though he now looks to be edging his way back into contention in Mikel Arteta’s first-team.
Smith Rowe normally plays as an attacking player in the front three, but the Evening Standard claim that there are some members of Arteta’s coaching staff who believe he could also relish a new role deeper in midfield.
As long as Smith Rowe can put his fitness issues behind him, he surely has a very bright future at the Emirates Stadium, as he’s shown great potential in recent times when he’s managed to get a run of games together.
Arsenal fans will now hope this somewhat forgotten man can make an impressive comeback late on this season, as he looks to be coming back to full fitness at just the right time.
The Gunners remain five points clear at the top of the Premier League table despite several injury issues this season, most notably with main striker Gabriel Jesus, though Smith Rowe has undoubtedly also been missed.
Smith Rowe is meant to be at best either a deep lying playmaker or a box-to-box central midfielder.
Not until Smith Rowe curbs his attacking ambitions and embrace playing in the deep midfiled role, he will continue to be a hit and miss. He can ask Iwobi.
I love the fact that the Arsenal academy are correcting this problem of wrongly developing CM players. They have totally scrapped the no10 role for 8s and 6s. If you must play centralmidfield, then you must be available to be picked anytime any day as a deeplying 6 or box-to-box 8.
Iwobi scored 11 premier league goals in four seasons and 100 games with Arsenal. Smith Rowe scored 10 in 33 games last season alone.