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Bukayo Saka & Gabriel Martinelli: The art of the modern winger & why Arsenal pair stand out - Theo Walcott

I'd love to be playing in this current Gunners team myself too, of course, because they are an exciting side that is expected to challenge for the title - but I would have to get in ahead of Saka down the right, and there would be no chance of that!

My old position itself has changed so much, in any case. I only retired in August but I don't see myself as having been a modern-day winger. Not in the way Saka and Martinelli operate, anyway.

Some of the demands of the role now probably don't quite work for me, in that part of the freedom I had in certain areas of the pitch has gone.