Former Arsenal defender Mikael Silvestre has predicted that Myles Lewis-Skelly will not leave the club in the January transfer window.

Shock rumours surfaced online this week that Chelsea are one of the Premier League clubs monitoring the 19-year-old left-back, despite Arsenal insisting the player isn’t for sale and won’t leave on loan.

Lewis-Skelly, who signed a new deal at the Emirates earlier this year, hasn’t started a single top-flight game for the Gunners this term with Mikel Arteta opting to pick Riccardo Calafiori ahead of him.

The teenager’s lack of playing time has cost him a place in Thomas Tuchel ’s England squad, with the World Cup coming up next year.

But Silvestre is adamant Lewis-Skelly, a Hale End academy graduate who is under contract until the sum

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