Emile Smith Rowe will most likely need to leave Arsenal soon as the midfielder has spent more time on the bench than on the pitch playing for the Premier League club.
Although the 23-year-old is an exceptionally gifted player, he has battled to get minutes at the Emirates during the last 18 months.
Smith Rowe hasn’t played much for Arsenal because to injuries, competition for places and a lack of form.
Journalist Ben Jacobs has confirmed on the The Cannon Podcast that the Gunners midfielder is attracting interest from Italian clubs Juventus and Roma.
Jacobs shared where the English midfielder could be playing in the near future with Ligue 1 also a possibility.
He said: “I’m also told that outside of the Premier League there are a few clubs outside of the Premier League who have looked at Emile Smith Rowe including Juventus and Roma, and in addition to that there is some interest from Ligue 1 as well, Nice are flying at the moment and they want to strengthen in this position, but that would probably only happen in the summer.”
Chelsea made a last-minute inquiry about Smith Rowe during the summer transfer window, but Arsenal turned them down.
Aston Villa have seen two bids rejected for the midfielder in the past. Smith Rowe has been linked to Newcastle United during the current January transfer window, however PSR (profit and sustainability rules) may now allow the Magpies to sign the Arsenal star.
Smith Rowe is believed to be reluctant to leave Arsenal at this time, as Arteta has also assured him that he would have “chances” in the second half of the season.
Smith is more dependable than Nketiah. Please let Nketiah go instead of Smith. Nketiah can not play well in fifteen consecutive matches in a season but Smith is strong and talented enough to play a whole season and he score goals. So please let Smith stay and Nketiah to go for a better and stronger attacker.
But ESR cannot play 15 consecutive games without an injury.
Fitness is a let down, pity.
ESR has no chance of staying injury free at Arsenal. Players get injured more and more these days when playing for Arsenal. It’s because the Cheating Refs allow Arsenal players to be taken down during the first half of games without any punishment.
Saka gets taken down more than 30 times before a player gets punished. This is how the Refs get their own back on Arteta for complaining by letting his players get kicked without punishment. No wonder Arteta is afraid of playing academy players for fear that the ref will allow the opposition to freely kick them and injure them without punishment.
am starting to accept that arsenal is indeed a small mentality club.
Emile Smith Rowe is a million times a day better player than Kai Havertz
SmithRowe was. brilliant prior to injury.. cut in terrorised defenders, and was regularly assisting or scoring.
He has not received one chance to play full ninety minutes….fifteen including extra time, now and again.
And ESR is also a million times a day injury prone than any other player in the Arsenal team except Thomas Partey
Partey has done his surgery,so injury issues could be a thing of the past.
Smith Rowe is far better than kai, Nketiah combined. The medical team at arsenal need to pull up the socketings. They always present players when they have not fully recovered from injuries. Remember Gabriel Jesus last season, Smith Rowe among others.
But banange the guy is extra ordinary talented. I love him, very strong and balanced.
I don’t know what to say.
Most of us have fallen victim of Arteta’s crafty fabrication that Smith Rowe is injury prone! That is pure lies. He simply don’t want the player despite the fact that we always do excellently well any time he starts as an attacking midfielder, as against Sheffield United where we scored five and Nketiah scored hat trick. Since then almighty Arteta has not started him again. We have a coaching problem.
Amadou Onana from Everton and Trevoh Chalobah from Chelsea are the guys Arsenal need to fortify the team right now, for any success to be achieved by the end of this season.
Calling back Marquinhos from Nantes Loan is a great idea. He is a natural and solid backup to Saka on that right attack. Same way Nelson is to continue playing backup and challenging Martinelli on the left. Eddie is always doing well coming in for Jesus thru the middle.
Onana will come into the Xhaka role with Havertz watching keenly to learning the defensive ethics of the role.
Partey is now set to be giving Rice, the highly important rotations at the base of the midfield.
It’s time for Zinchenko and Timbre to start driving the team from central and deep-wide areas of the pitch like Odegaard is doing.
Tomiyasu and White should now be our de facto LB and RB with Trevoh Chalobah providing standard cover.
Kiwior can now continue to provide cover for our Saliba and Magalhaes defensive bedrock.
Promote Lino Sousa from the Academy. He is such a great promise of a defender. Just like Kiwior and Trevoh Chalobah, he can fill in at multiple roles: SB, CB, DM, CM.
Let the likes of Emile, Jorginho, Elneny, Cedric, Vieira, and Trossard go and be the protagonists that they are anywhere else. They are clearly tactical misfits as far Artetaball is concerned, with all due respect to them though. They are neither natural drivers/pressers, nor natural stoppers/occupiers, for this Artetaball project.
Pressers/Drivers – Nelson, Saka, Martinelli, Marquinhos, Odegaard, Zinchenko, Timbre, Eddie, Jesus
Stoppers/Occupiers – Magalhaes, Tomiyasu, Partey, Rice, Kiwior, Havertz, Saliba, White, Lino Sousa, (Amadou Onana, Trevoh Chalobah)
The goal-keeping unit is already quite good and very promising. They will get better in as much as the team outfield is consistently set up to dominate oppositions.
We shall continue to pray for Arteta to be faithful to his Artetaball tactical philosophy by using the natural players for each team role.
Arteta has a great footballing philosophy as a tactician but he has a blind spot of annoyingly using square legs in round holes leading to defensive leakages.