With his career suddenly at a crossroads, could Myles Lewis-Skelly be a Fulham player next season? The England left back has struggled for minutes at Arsenal this season and may need to move to earn back his England place.
Myles Lewis-Skelly was a shoo-in for England’s World Cup squad a year ago.
Fast forward to two months before the tournament gets underway and it would require a serious run of injuries for him to be on the plane.
With Riccardo Calafiori and Piero Hincapie now the No.1 and No.2 at left back for Arsenal, Lewis-Skelly is a bit-part player.
He has as such been usurped within the England pecking order too by Newcastle’s Lewis Hall and Manchester City’s Nico O’Reilly, two players who probably were not in many people’s World Cup squads this time last year.
And now, Lewis-Skelly’s career is at a crossroads.
Does he stay at his boyhood club and try and fight for minutes against established international players?
Or does he move elsewhere to play more regularly and get his career back on track?
It is a question only he will know the answer to and at the age of just 19, it seems perhaps a little excessive to suggest he needs to get his career back on track.
But, in the 2024/25 season, Lewis-Skelly was in the Premier League team of the Season, he scored on his England debut and it looked like he had the world at his feet.
In the 2025/26 season, he has played 29 times and 1,448 minutes, with just 402 of those minutes coming in the Premier League.
A year ago, he played in 39 matches across the season, playing 2,543 minutes, of which 1,371 came in the league.
His role has been reduced, right at the time when he wanted to explode and earn his World Cup spot.
And this is where Fulham come in.
Antonee Robinson is drawing attention from Manchester United again and has struggled since his return from injury.
And for that reason, Fulham could be required to sign a new left back, and there would not be many more exciting talents who may be available than Lewis-Skelly.
The six-cap Englishman can operate on the left or in the midfield, and could form a partnership with Sander Berge should Robinson stay or Ryan Sessegnon continue to kick on.
Fulham also have a long and proud history of signing Arsenal players and reviving careers, with Emile Smith Rowe, Bernd Leno and indirectly, Alex Iwobi all examples of that.
In fact, Fulham have a whole host of players who have been unable to prove themselves at the biggest clubs and then come and found their form again at Craven Cottage - take Harry Wilson as a prime example of that.
While there are no concrete rumours as of yet surrounding a Lewis-Skelly departure, it is a move that would make sense to both the club and the player himself.