Mikel Arteta has just three players at his disposal who would get into the squads of Liverpool and Manchester City.
That’s the view of former Liverpool star Stan Collymore, who reckons but for Arsenal ’s bright young things, Arteta’s squad is still a long way off competing with the really big boys of the Premier League. Mirror Sport columnist Collymore said: “Arsenal’s youngsters are the real deal — Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe and Gabriel Martinelli.
“But the problem is for Arsenal, they may get picked off if the Gunners don’t get to the Promised Land of winning trophies in the next couple of years. I could certainly see Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs being interested in Saka, Smith Rowe and Martinelli — they have a chance of getting into one of those clubs in the next four or five years if they keep developing.
