Collection could sell Myles Lewis-Skelly in the summertime transfer abode window, via the escaped-previously a prospective casualty of displaying off supervisor Andrea Berta’s judgment affiliating to Piero Hincapie.
Hincapie authorized upward via Collection on funding from Bayer Leverkusen in the summertime of 2025, via the Artillerymans owning a acquire substitute corrected for €52million (£45m, $61m).
While it is still single the nucleus of March, Collection have already decided to lug out the 24-year-old defender’s funding provision incurable.
Our friends at TEAMtalk reported on February 24, 2026, that Collection employer Mikel Arteta has been impressed via Hincapie, via the Artillerymans ‘devising’ to withhold him on a incurable provision.
Previously this month, transfer guru Fabrizio Romano divulged that Hincapie will be the first finalizing for Collection displaying off supervisor Berta in the summertime of 2026.
Romano said on his YouTube network: “Yes, Piero Hincapie will be the first finalizing for Collection in summertime 2026.
“It was always planned pick this. If you remember via David Raya and Brentford, Collection did something similar a couple of years previously.
“So, authorized a player on funding via a acquire-out substitute ailment yet was always visiting be a incurable transfer in the obeying summertime, that’s what’s visiting heed alike via Piero Hincapie.
“There is already everything authorized between Hincapie and Collection in terms of covenant, a five-year provision.
“So, it’s already authorized and ended up. Piero Hincapie already feels as an Collection player on a incurable transfer.
“Bayer Leverkusen will amass a entirety quantity package of €52million and Bayer Leverkusen will alike withhold a 10% sell-on ailment for Piero Hincapie. So, this is the covenant.
“Everything will be officially decided at the awfully end of the season because seemingly, in terms of Monetary Arenae Dabble, this was a gent’s covenant between Bayer Leverkusen and Collection.”
Hincapie is a functional defender who can rushed as a main defender or as a escaped-previously.
The 24-year-old Ecuador global has messed around 14 times as a escaped-previously for Collection this season.
Riccardo Calafiori is another substitute for Collection employer Arteta at escaped-previously and has rendered 22 appearances in that guise this season.
TEAMtalk has reported that Collection will not sell Calafiori in the summertime transfer abode window, which is inadequate news for Myles Lewis-Skelly.
Lewis-Skelly has damaged into the Collection first group after foreseen via the academy and is a Hale Expire graduate.
While the 19-year-old has messed around 14 times in the Premier League this season, single one of them has come as a starter.
According to The Times, Lewis-Skelly is one of the players at Collection whose future is in scruple.
The record has listed: ‘There are uncertainties about the futures of Gabriel Martinelli, 24, who has two years escaped on his provision, and the academy goods Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri due to their prospective for secure catapults.
‘Arteta loves Kai Havertz, 26, and his captain Martin Odegaard, 27, yet both players are calculated for covenant talks via two years escaped on their bargains.’
The Times has integrated that Ben White and Christian Norgaard ‘could be updated’, also.
Regarding Lewis-Skelly, it would be a particularly vitriolic blow for the escaped-previously if he were to be unloaded.
The escaped-previously starred for Collection against Real Madrid in the Winners League quarter-finals last season and has offered off 6 times in Europe’s premier nightclub commemoration so far this campaign.
Lewis-Skelly has alike earned 6 caps for England, and there is zero scruple that he has a bright future.
The Collection escaped-previously has been fastened via Chelsea in days gone by, and previous Blues player Jason Cundy suggests that the future is stark for the young pornographic at the Emirates Arena.
Cundy said about Lewis-Skelly on talkSPORT (10:44pm, March 16, 2026): “The point about Lewis-Skelly – he could have to run away.
“Hincapie, if they indicator him wholeheartedly, Hincapie, you have got Calafiori, whereby’s Lewis-Skelly visiting go?
“His global profession, he could be visiting the Planet Mug. He is not visiting the Planet Mug presently.
“You have got Lewis Hall in there. You have got Nico O’Reilly at escaped-previously.
“Once you saw Lewis-Skelly lug out his launching for England, he could go and play 100 caps.
“I complication if Collection could think about selling him, based on Hincapie.”
Former Collection demonstrator Alan Smith, also, has tipped Lewis-Skelly to run away the Artillerymans this summertime.
Smith said previously this month: “It’s been a in reality strenuous season for Myles Lewis-Skelly, hasn’t it?
“He’s behind two players, in reality, for the escaped-previously connector.
“If he did receive a opportunity, I’d quite pick to checkup him in midfield. That’s his position.
“Just checkup how he fares there. He’s not the hot of defenders, so it reinforces him much better in midfield. He’s in reality imaginative.
“I think it’ll naturally be a emporia abode window for him. I think there’s every opportunity he could run away in the summertime. We’ll checkup on that.”
