Ainsley Maitland-Niles: Current Club, Salary, and Penalty Record

Even football fans who follow every transfer deadline end up scratching their heads over Ainsley Maitland-Niles: the answer to where he plays keeps shifting depending on which profile you open. The Premier League’s own record currently places him at Everton, with 113 appearances, two goals and four assists across his top-flight career.

Current club: Everton ·
Position: Right-back / Midfielder ·
Date of birth: 29 August 1997 ·
Nationality: England ·
Premier League appearances: 113 ·
Premier League goals / assists: 2 goals / 4 assists

Seven profile fields, one pattern: the league’s official record is the most stable starting point, even when cached profiles around it disagree. The Premier League profile (England’s top-flight league) supplies the baseline for this table.

The pattern: one official page anchors these numbers, and most other profiles build variations on top of it.

What happened to Ainsley Maitland-Niles?

Maitland-Niles is an English professional footballer whose current club, according to the Premier League profile, is Everton. The path there has been a long one.

Goal’s indexed career table (football news and career database) traces a sequence of loans and moves: Ipswich Town in 2015/16, West Bromwich Albion in 2020/21, Roma and Arsenal in 2021/22, Southampton in 2022/23, then Lyon from 2023/24 to part of 2026/27.

• 2015/16 — Ipswich Town (loan)
• 2020/21 — West Bromwich Albion (loan)
• 2021/22 — Roma and Arsenal
• 2022/23 — Southampton
• 2023/24 to part of 2026/27 — Lyon
• Current — Everton

The pattern: Maitland-Niles did not disappear; he kept switching shirts, and that loop of short-term moves is the real answer to “what happened.” For the calendar that rules those windows, see When Does the Transfer Window Close in 2026.

Where is Ainsley Maitland-Niles now?

Is Ainsley Maitland-Niles still at Arsenal?

• Short answer: no — current profiles list Everton, not Arsenal.

The Analyst (football statistics platform) lists him as an Everton midfielder, and the Premier League’s own profile agrees.

The Arsenal connection is in the past: Goal’s indexed career table places him at Arsenal in 2021/22, and a legacy Arsenal profile still surfaces in search results.

The position label splits the record books. The Premier League profile says midfielder; other public profiles in search results describe him as right-back.

The implication: “where does he play” is not settled by a single source, and both labels carry weight in different databases.

What is Ainsley Maitland-Niles’ salary?

The direct answer: no official salary figure appears in the provided research. The Premier League profile and The Analyst publish performance and squad data, not wages.

Contract length and transfer fees are also absent from the records, so any “weekly wage” attached to his name is coming from somewhere other than the club or the league.

This matters because the query “ainsley maitland-niles salary” is a popular one: unverified numbers rank well when they quote a weekly wage with confidence and no contract source.

Why this matters: the correct answer to “what is his salary” is that no verified figure exists in the source set — and that absence is itself the finding.

What is Ainsley Maitland-Niles’ penalty record?

There is no verified penalty count for Maitland-Niles in the source set. A penalty record only becomes meaningful when attempts are included: five scored out of five is a different statement from fifty out of fifty-five.

Has any player never missed a penalty?

• Status: not confirmed in this source set.

Search interest in the never-missed question is real, but the provided research contains no named player with a verified 100-percent record. The honest answer: a “never missed” claim needs a defined minimum number of attempts and a reliable statistical source — neither exists here.

The upshot: treat every “never missed” headline as provisional until a database names the player and the attempt count.

Who has a 100% penalty record?

This section is where the evidence runs out fastest, so the responsible answer to each question below is: unconfirmed in the available sources.

Who scored 47 out of 48 penalties?

• Status: unverified in the source set.

The 47-of-48 figure circulates as trivia, but the content plan records it as a question, not an attributed record. Without a Tier 1 or Tier 2 database naming the player, there is no answer to report.

What is Steven Gerrard’s penalty record?

• Status: not confirmed in the provided source set.

Gerrard’s penalties are logged in dedicated statistical databases, but none of those databases is in the source set for this article. Repeating a guessed percentage would be exactly the kind of unverified claim this update avoids.

Has Alan Shearer ever missed a penalty?

• Status: not confirmed in the provided source set.

Shearer’s record is a popular search, but the source set does not include his attempt log. A responsible answer would have to come from a database that tracks every penalty, not from highlights.

Has Messi ever missed a penalty?

• Status: not confirmed in the provided source set.

The same logic applies to Messi: the research notes contain no penalty log for him, so any “never missed” or “missed X times” number here would be invented.

Which player missed the most penalties in history?

• Status: unconfirmed.

“Most missed” depends on the database, the era, and what counts as an attempt. The provided sources offer no leaderboard, so the only truthful answer is that the record is not established in this article’s evidence pack.

Who is Mr. Most penalties in football history?

• Status: the label itself is unresolved.

“Mr. Most penalties” is a nickname-style title, not an official award. Without a defined metric — most scored, most taken, or most missed — and a named statistical source, the title cannot be assigned with confidence.

The pattern: the search queries around penalty records are louder than the data behind them. For fans, the useful habit is to ask for the attempt count before believing any “never missed” claim.

How the record books compare

Three indexed profiles, three versions of the same career — that is the pattern worth remembering when someone gives you a single-number answer.

What this means: the numbers you get depend on which database you open. The current Premier League overview and The Analyst agree on Everton; they do not agree on the size of the Premier League sample, and Transfermarkt counts the career differently again.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles’ career timeline

Goal’s indexed career table traces the sequence; the list below compresses it.

• 29 August 1997 — born (Premier League profile).
• 2015/16 — Ipswich Town (loan, Goal indexed career table).
• 2020/21 — West Bromwich Albion (loan, Goal indexed career table).
• 2021/22 — Roma and Arsenal (Goal indexed career table).
• 2022/23 — Southampton (Goal indexed career table).
• 2023/24 to part of 2026/27 — Lyon (Goal indexed career table).
• Current — Everton (Premier League profile).
• Premier League count — 109 appearances per Transfermarkt’s indexed table, against 113 in the Premier League’s own overview.

The pattern: every major stage of Maitland-Niles’ career is well-documented until you ask for a single current stat line, and then the profiles start to drift.

What’s confirmed, what’s unclear

The source set supports four facts with confidence and leaves six questions open.

The trade-off: the sources agree on his existence, birthdate, and current club, but they will not settle the position argument or the penalty trivia — so readers should treat confident answers on those two fronts with suspicion.

What the sources actually say

Three extracts from the source set show how the record shifts depending on where you look.

“Ainsley Maitland-Niles is joining Genezys!!”

Instagram post from @maitlandniles (social endorsement, not a club-status source)

“112 appearances, 2 goals and 3 assists.”

Premier League player profile (indexed version)

“30 Ligue 1 appearances, scored once and supplied four assists.”

The Analyst (football statistics platform)

What to watch: the dates on these pages matter as much as the stats. A cached Premier League line or an indexed Lyon line can look current long after it has stopped being true.

The takeaway

Maitland-Niles’ career reads more clearly as a timeline than as a single profile: Ipswich, West Brom, Roma, Arsenal, Southampton, Lyon, and now Everton — with the Premier League listing him as a midfielder and other public profiles still calling him a right-back. The salary and penalty-record questions are the ones no source in this set confirms, and that absence of confirmation is the real finding. For fans trying to settle “where does he play now,” the choice is clear: trust the current Everton listing, ask for a named source on any wage or penalty claim, and ignore any profile that cannot keep his club straight.

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