Is Calum Chambers Arsenal’s desired hybrid right-back?

Arsenal will require a new right-back in the summer. A specific profile of one as well. Hector Bellerin will leave and Cedric will stay as backup, with Mikel Arteta needing to locate his hybrid option. Has he already unearthed it internally in Calum Chambers?

Systematically it’s imperative that Arsenal have a right-back who can shift inwards and join the midfield. Kieran Tierney on the opposite flank is someone who favours the overlap, an area of the pitch where his finer qualities can sing, a move that is balanced out by the opposing full-back tucking inside.

With it seemingly inevitable that Hector Bellerin will leave in the summer for richly needed financial gain, the obvious course of action is to obtain a replacement. Links to Achraf Hakimi have been prevalent throughout 2021, a player of outstanding and unquestionable world class quality, but who will not come cheap.

This rebuild can’t afford for corners to be cut. It has to be done properly and it must be carried out with the upmost due diligence.

Is Calum Chambers Arsenal’s desired hybrid right-back as Hector Bellerin looks set to leave in summer transfer window?

Thus, if there is an internal solution to the problem, much like the way Emile Smith Rowe added some sorely needed creativity when umpteen stop-gap options were being sounded out, does that not kill two birds with one stone? The right target acquired for no outlay?

First of all, hats off to Calum Chambers. What he’s done in battling his way back from a horrendous long-term injury to claim the right-back slot his own over the longest serving first team player in the squad is highly commendable.

Not only that, but to put in fine displays en route including a solid example of the hybrid right-back/midfield role in the 4-0 win over Slavia Prague, can he be the man to save Arsenal some serious pennies in the summer?

Bukayo Saka and Smith Rowe have already saved the club tens of millions – being unkind there – and if Chambers can utilise his experience in midfield and at full-back, Arsenal could have a solution to a problem they need to fix.

Maybe.