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Ian Wright said reports linking Myles Lewis-Skelly with a move away from Arsenal this summer have left him worried about the club\u2019s transfer strategy.<\/p>\n
Standard Sport reported last week that the player had been offered to Chelsea and Manchester United by intermediaries, casting doubt over his future with the Gunners, where he has played since he was eight years old.<\/p>\n
No concrete interest seemed to materialise from the rumours, and Lewis-Skelly has impressed in performances against Manchester City and Como since, suggesting he is prepared to stay and fight for his place.<\/p>\n
The emergence of those reports, though, has left Wright concerned about Arsenal\u2019s transfer strategy. Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, he questioned the Gunners\u2019 approach to the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know where that\u2019s coming from because I know for a fact that\u2019s not coming from his team,\u201d he began. \u201cIt\u2019s not coming from his mum. Arsenal fans need to chill out with his mum saying that she\u2019s touting him about.<\/p>\n
\u201cMyles has already said he\u2019s happy to say. Why have Arsenal not just said he\u2019s not for sale? He\u2019d be a great signing for Manchester United, of course he would. Look what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s things happening and this again is what I\u2019m worried about with Arsenal, it\u2019s the way we\u2019re doing business with intermediaries now. How\u2019s that story happening when we know for a fact they\u2019re happening and want to stay and are happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMartinelli has not been contacted by anybody at the club but has been touted about everywhere. Who is doing that? Why is that happening?\u201d<\/p>\n
Wright went on, questioning the state of Arsenal\u2019s finances as he pointed out the club may be pushed to sell for pure profit.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what\u2019s confusing? How can we be in for Vinicius Junior when we\u2019re looking to break records trying to sign this guy but now we\u2019re desperate to sell. What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a big squad and somebody has to leave but it seems like everyone leaving Arsenal is going to Turkey, that\u2019s another thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe unfortunate thing you get when you\u2019ve got a player who comes through the academy and breaks into the first team and does what they do, you\u2019ve always got that noose of pure profit on them.<\/p>\n