Arsenal already have their own Lamine Yamal as Mikel Arteta Champions League masterplan clear
Three years after his Arsenal first-team debut, aged 17, Bukayo Saka clocked 100 appearances for the club. By that time he was 20 and had already scored more than 15 senior goals. He was into his third full season as part of the squad having come through briefly under Unai Emery.
From there it has been almost all Mikel Arteta. Of Saka’s 258 matches to date, 238 of those have been for Arteta. Considering how young he was, the return of a goal or assist every other game in that time is remarkable across all competitions.
In the Premier League, all but 10 of Saka’s 191 appearances have been with Arteta as the manager. His output has continued to shoot up year-on-year (when fit) and he has 103 goal involvements – split as evenly as can be with 52 goals and 51 assists – in 181 games.
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