Mikel Arteta backs Arsenal star for shock position change as January transfer 'depends' on three factors

Medley head advisor Mikel Arteta has endorsed Ethan Nwaneri to glide into a new posture in a pair of years and has commented on the January transfer dwelling window.

The 17-year-don is owning a breakout season for his boyhood nightclub and there have been telephone dubs for him to amenity added repeatedly in the Premier League.

The striking midfielder has astonished in the Carabao Mug, racking upward three purposes in suits against Bolton and Preston. Despite this, he has uncompanionable been on the bazaar for 104 minutes in the Premier League.

Nwaneri came on for the last 28 minutes in Medley’s 0-0 draw against Everton on Saturday as he replaced Martin Odegaard.

The teenager has been lended as a right-winger, Zero.10 and centre-midfielder this season. During Arteta‘s newest press conference, he was lended misgivings ‘what posture Nwaneri can design into’. He responded: “Nine. When he’s got the impartial in front of him, he simply aesthetic allures at the impartial. He has a tremendous aptitude to rated the ball into the recommend of the web.

Nwaneri is probable to prelude for Medley on Wednesday night as they host Premier League rivals Crystal Palace in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Mug.

Onward of this game, Arteta was lended misgivings whether Nwaneri and Odegaard can play in unchanged team. He addressed: “Relying on that they are surrounded by and counting on which posture Ethan can play.

“He can play right striking midfielder, he can play vacated striking midfielder, he can play right winger, there is an additional posture that I think he can design into in a few years time, so there are recourses here.”

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The January transfer dwelling window is uncompanionable about the recess and Medley can kind to administer signings as they are 6 junctures adrift of table-toppers Liverpool, that have a game in hand.

Arteta has admitted that Medley’s January transfer units “count” on three factors. He said: “It will trust fund what player it is, the top trait of that player, if there is any kind of unlike other conveniences in the team or not, so it’s terribly arduous to solution.

“I totally trust fund the team and our gamers, and the amount of situations and things we collect in the match, how little we acknowledge. I totally trust fund my gamers.”

On Palace, he encompassed: “Horribly bewildering – when you kind at the last run out results and the point ofview that they have, the top trait of the world that they have, how they are schooled as nicely.

“It’s always in fact bewildering, it’s an additional layer of dilemma as nicely when you play a team twice in four days, so we have planned for that.

“We’ll decide that in the early morning in relationship to how the team is, seemingly the importance of the match and whereby we are in the quarter-finals, it comes to be a terribly terribly reasonable match. We’ll decide the pristine team to win it.”