Nwaneri & Lewis-Skelly: Arsenal's Next Gen

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The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hale End graduates Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly have made waves at Arsenal during their breakout season, despite playing in positions relatively unfamiliar to them. With major contributions in both the Premier League and Champions League, their seamless integration into the first team has been nothing short of remarkable.

Over the course of this episode The Athletic details both Myles and Ethan’s rise to the first team. Topics include their friendship since the age of eight, their contrasting personalities on and off the pitch, comparisons to Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe’s journey, the challenges that come within academy football, the importance of supporting young players from multiple angles, Myles' England debut, and what the future holds for both players.

You’ll hear from football coaches Adam Birchall and Greg Lincoln, and The Athletic’s Art de Roché, James McNicholas and Amy Lawrence. Get to know Arsenal’s new kids on the block, they’re here to stay.

Written and produced by Jay Beale.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network
0:04.1	One area
0:09.3	Trying that with the left foot
0:11.0	Oh, what a cracking hit that is
0:13.8	Excellent feat from Lewis Skelly
0:15.9	He plays with so much confidence
0:17.3	Since these two boys have come into the team
0:19.6	They've pretty much been flawless.
0:22.2	Ethan, Wyingieri, made yourself room to shoot and showed us all what is about. Brilliant.
0:27.9	Miles Lewis Skiney! The boy becomes a man. And with what style?
0:35.9	They're incredibly special talents. The rest of the country don't realize how good these two are. They're trying things and it what style. They're incredibly special talents.
0:37.9	The rest of the country don't realize how good these two are.
0:40.2	They're trying things and it's working and it's just reinforcing how much quality that they have
0:45.2	and how much belief they have in their own ability.
0:47.3	The goal made in Hellen's.
0:49.4	Louis Skelly.
0:50.7	Oh, lovely ball on one.
0:51.7	Erie.
0:52.2	Oh, that is exquisite.
0:54.2	They feel that they can affect the game and they just go and do it.
0:57.5	Rather than being too coached, they just play football and that's, I think, the biggest compliment you can pay to them.
1:07.4	Ethan Wannerie and Miles Lewis Skelly both joined Arsenal's Hayland Academy in May 2015, aged 8.
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