Tag: Eddie Nketiah

Emile Smith Rowe, Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah are all set to head out on the tour of Singapore with Arsenal, whilst the u23s prepare for a tour of Germany, according to reports.

Arsenal kicked off pre-season in style with an 8-0 victory against non-league Boreham Wood, so let's take a look at the top five performers from the match.

17-year-old striker Folarin Balogun has revealed he had a trial with Tottenham, who expressed an interest in him first, but he was thankful to join Arsenal instead.

Eddie Nketiah made his debut for the England u21s on Tuesday, in a goalless draw against Mexico in the Toulon Tournament.

Joao Virginia is the latest Arsenal player to receive a call up from his country's u21 manager to take part in the Maurice Revello Tournament starting this weekend.

After a very exciting season for the Arsenal academy, we're revealing the identity of our Young Player of the Season for 2017/18.

Arsenal lost yet another away match on Wednesday night, this time against Leicester City, but for once the team had a valid excuse.

Arsenal slipped to yet another embarrassing away defeat to opposition they should be beating easily on Sunday, as Newcastle ran out 2-1 victors at St. James Park.

Reiss Nelson says Arsene Wenger is planning a 'bright future' for him, Eddie Nketiah and Joe Willock, as the academy trio continue to edge closer to the first team.

Arsene Wenger told the media he thinks there is 'no need' for the club to sign more forward players this summer, as we edge closer to the transfer window re-opening.

Arsenal's January signings make useful additions to the squad, but there are still other areas that need addressing in the summer.

With eight games to play, Arsenal really don't have much to aim for in the Premier League, so it's a great opportunity to give young players opportunities and experience.

It's time for another international break and two weeks away from club football, so to help you cope here's the fixture list for all the Arsenal players called up.

Arsenal have one player in the top 10 most accurate passers in the Premier League this season, and rather surprisingly that player is Nacho Monreal.

Five Arsenal youngsters have received England call ups for the next round of youth international fixtures, as the club's academy continues to go from strength to strength.

Arsenal are ready to send Eddie Nketiah and Reiss Nelson out on loan, according to reports, but they'll have to wait until next season.

The optimum squad age to be successful is somewhere between 26 and 27 years old, according to a study by the CIES Football Observatory.

Arsenal travel to Italy for their Europa League first leg tie against AC Milan and it's hard to find anyone feeling optimistic, or that bothered. Ahead of the game, I imagined some questions fans might be asking and tried to answer them.

Eddie Nketiah came on and looked lively against Brighton at the weekend, but he continues to have to settle for a few minutes here and there with the first team.

Arsenal slipped to a new low over the weekend, losing a fourth consecutive match, 2-1 against newly promoted Brighton & Hove Albion.

Charlie Nicholas thinks Arsenal's youth players are being punished for the first-team's failures, and I can't say I disagree with him.

Arsenal play Östersunds FK in the second leg of their round-of-32 tie on Thursday night, and with a cup final at the weekend, you can expect changes to the starting lineup.

The CIES Football Observatory haven't named any Arsenal players on their list of the 50 most promising u20 prospects in Europe.

Arsenal's January signings should make useful additions to the squad, but there are still other areas that need addressing in the summer. Could any academy players fill the gaps?

Arsenal put in a professional display to win 3-0 away in Östersund on Thursday night. Although the team never really hit top gear, a couple of individual performances shone through.

Arsenal fans want Eddie Nketiah to start against Östersunds FK on Thursday, after the news about Alexandre Lacazette's injury.

Eddie Nketiah featured in the FA's 2018 World Cup kit video on Friday, after Nike revealed the new strip this week.

Eddie Nketiah has been nominated for the Premier League 2 Player of the Month award for January following his brace against Manchester United and hattrick against Everton.

Joe Willock says he's happy to get a hat-trick of assists, after Arsenal's u23s brushed Everton aside in a 4-0 win.

Arsenal's u23s breezed past Everton 4-0 to cut the gap at the top of the table to just one point on Monday.

Former Arsenal striker Jay Bothroyd is delighted the Gunners are in the Carabao Cup final, but feels it sums up Arsene Wenger's demise, as it was considered a throwaway competition.

Reiss Nelson, Eddie Nketiah, Chuba Akpom and Matt Macey were all in training ahead of Arsenal's League Cup clash against Chelsea.

Arsenal's u23s play Manchester United in the Premier League 2, with new-boy Konstantinos Mavropanos to make his debut tonight at 19:00 GMT. The match will be live on Arsenal Player.

Now that we've reached the end of 2017, we're taking a look back at the top-three standout Arsenal youth prospects of the year.

The official UEFA website picked their 50 young players to watch in 2018, and not one of them plays for Arsenal.

Arsène Wenger admitted he expects Arsenal to be busy with loans this January. But which players could the Gunners give temporary moves away to?

Eddie Nketiah believes pre-season training with the first-team helped him improve, and he says he aspires to play against the best players in the world on a regular basis.

Arsene Wenger has praised Arsenal's young talent and has stressed the need to give them chances in the first team. 

Arsenal included seven academy players in first-team training on Monday, ahead of the Gunners' League Cup quarter-final against West Ham United.

Eddie Nketiah took just seconds to show Arsenal fans why they should be excited about him, so is he the real deal?

There wasn't a Gooner alive who didn't feel excited after Eddie Nketiah came on in the cup match and scored his first senior goal after just 15 seconds!

Arsenal's u23s face Manchester City at the City Football Academy on Sunday, in the next match of their Premier League 2 season.

Eddie Nketiah, Ben Sheaf and Matt Macey have all been handed new long-term contracts by Arsenal.

More than 50,000 fans have bought tickets for Arsenal's final Europa League game against BATE Borisov, despite nothing riding on the outcome.

Arsenal's u23s' second match of the Premier League International Cup ended in a 0-0 draw against Reading.

Arsenal's u23s returned to winning ways with a 3-0 victory over West Ham, after a number of the more experienced options returned to the line up.

Arsene Wenger wants to see a strong performance from his second choice eleven against Cologne, and won't accept anything less.

Manager Karl Robinson revealed Charlton looked at signing Eddie Nketiah in the summer, while admitting they're in the market for a goalscorer in January.

With Reiss Nelson, Joe Willock and Ainsley Maitland-Niles now making fairly regular appearances for the first team, we're looking at who might be next in line.

Eddie Nketiah racked up another goal for the England u19s against Iceland on Saturday, helping the Young Lions to a 2-1 victory.

Alexis Sanchez has been well off his 2016/17 form in this current campaign, so we're asking if it's time to give someone else a chance in the team?

Calls for Eddie Nketiah to be given a chance in the Premier League are premature.

Eddie Nketiah's four goals against the Faroe Islands has excited the Arsenal fans.

Eddie Nketiah scored four goals for the England u19s as they breezed past Faroe Islands with a 6-0 victory.

Eddie Nketiah bagged four goals for the England u19s against the Faroe Islands.

Arsenal have a total of seven players called up for England duty at various youth levels, as the young Gunners benefit from their recent senior match experiences.

After drawing 0-0 at home to Red Star Belgrade on Thursday night, Arsenal have secured qualification to the knockout stages of the Europa League with two games to spare, and did so without risking any of their big names players in the process. Job done, right?

Joe Willock, Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah have all been given England u19 call-ups.

In this latest edition of the Daily Cannon podcast, Matthew and Stephen discuss an eventful week, with a tumultuous AGM overshadowing a breakout performance from Eddie Nketiah.

Eddie Nketiah hailed the u23s' character after they came from 2-1 behind to draw 2-2 with Chelsea's u23s on Saturday.

Hector Bellerín revealed that after scoring a brace to win the match for Arsenal, Eddie Nketiah went back to the dressing room to deal with a barrage of messages from friends, fans and family.

Thierry Henry claims that coaching Eddie Nketiah at Arsenal was 'a pleasure' and that the 18-year-old is so skilled, he'll be scoring goals when he's 60.

Arsenal had a particular busy week this time around, with Norwich on Tuesday, the AGM on Thursday and Swansea at the weekend.

Are Arsenal fans over-hyping Eddie Nketiah or is the 18-year-old striker the real deal?

Arsenal are reportedly set to offer Eddie Nketiah a new five-year deal complete with 650% pay-rise.

Joe Willock scored a late equaliser for Arsenal u23s as they drew 2-2 with Chelsea.

Chelsea decided that Eddie Nketiah was too small to play professional football before releasing him.

Arsene Wenger has hinted that Eddie Nketiah could soon get a chance in the Premier League.

Eddie Nketiah has shed light on how he became an Arsenal player.

Ian Wright admits that Alex Iwobi has fizzled out a bit after breaking into the first team in 2015/16 and hopes that Eddie Nketiah doesn't do the same thing.

Arsenal made it through to the fifth round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night thanks to a brace from 18-year-old Eddie Nketiah, but who is he?

Arsene Wenger admits that he doesn't have the foggiest notion as to why Chelsea allowed Eddie Nketiah to leave.

After Eddie Nketiah's late brace against Norwich City in the League Cup on Tuesday night, many have been questioning why on earth Chelsea let the 18-year-old go two years ago.

Eddie Nketiah says he was a childhood Arsenal fan, and grew up watching legendary strikers like Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright.

Arsène Wenger can't remember the last time an Arsenal player made such a dramatic impact, after Eddie Nketiah's introduction fired the Gunners into the next round of the League Cup.

18-year-old Eddie Nketiah has been showered in praise by his Arsenal teammates after his senior debut brought two goals and saved the Gunners from League Cup elimination.

Eddie Nketiah's Wikipedia page was updated by some excited Arsenal fans on Tuesday night, after the 18-year-old scored two goals to turn a League Cup loss into a win.

Charlie Nicholas predicts a big win for the Gunners against Norwich City in Tuesday night's League Cup clash.

Eddie Nketiah got his first competitive minutes for Arsenal's senior side against BATE Borisov, and today we're looking at whether he could push on for the first team like Marcus Rashford has for Manchester United.

Now that the September matches have drawn to a close, we're taking a look back at the month and what we can learn from it.

Arsène Wenger says that young players need to take their chances when given first-team football for Arsenal, ahead of tonight's Europa League meeting with BATE Borisov.

Arsenal have taken a number of youngsters to Belarus for tonight's European encounter with BATE Borisov, with Arsene Wenger rotating the side ahead of a fixture pile-up.

Arsenal look to be taking a young squad to Belarus for Thursday's Europa League meeting with BATE Borisov.

Seven youngsters seem set to travel to Belarus to feature in Arsenal's Europa League match against BATE Borisov on Thursday.

After Arsenal's first League Cup match of the season against Doncaster Rovers, we're looking at whether the Gunners really do have such a good record bringing through youth.

Arsène Wenger claims that his current set of young players are among some of the best he's had in his 21 years at Arsenal.

Alexandre Lacazette has been impressed with Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah in his limited time with Arsenal this season.

Alexis Sanchez made a point to shake the hands of all of the youth players involved in first-team training as he arrived at London Colney.

Alexandre Lacazette has been impressed by Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah.

Arsenal have had their first-team photos taken for the 2017/18 season, which included three junior Gunners who won a competition to also feature in the shoot.

With Arsenal's finances dictating them from making a marquee signing, they'll be forced to look to the academy for inspiration. And there are five players who could well be the future of the club.

Three Arsenal players featured for France in their stalemate with Luxembourg, while Danny Welbeck scored for England and Mesut Ozil impressed with Germany.

Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly trying to snatch Manchester City's Jadon Sancho away from fellow suitors Arsenal this summer, and are preparing a bid to secure his signature.

Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah scored twice as Arsenal U23s ran out 4-3 winners against Manchester City U23 at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal U23s take on Manchester City U23s at the Emirates Stadium tonight in the Premier League 2.

Jack Wilshere made his long-awaited return after a leg break, but it was overshadowed as Reiss Nelson stole the headlines.

Agents Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah have got to work on Manchester City winger, Jadon Sancho.

Arsenal’s U18s will play their first match of the season against Fulham at 11am on Saturday 12th August.

Arsenal’s u23s have beaten Watford 6-1 in their final pre-season match before the real action gets underway.

Reiss Nelson and Joe Willock have continued to train with Arsenal's first team ahead of the Emirates Cup this weekend.

Eddie Nketiah and Donyell Malen appear to have performed their initiation songs for the rest of the Arsenal squad while away on their pre-season tour in China.

Petr Cech had some wise words for the younger Arsenal players following their win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

Arsenal goalkeepers Petr Cech and Emi Martinez both shone in Wednesday's win over Bayern Munich.

One of the more exciting parts of pre-season every year, for me at least, is seeing youth players get a chance to show what they can do against senior sides.

Eddie Nketiah is feeling a little unlucky at the minute having hit the post twice in as many games for Arsenal as the wider world gets a glimpse of him for the first time.

Young attacker Reiss Nelson gave his verdict after Arsenal's 2-0 victory over Sydney FC yesterday.

Just over a week ago we reported that Eddie Nketiah had signed his first professional contract with Arsenal and now the club have officially announced it.

Edward Nketiah has been offered his first professional contract with Arsenal at the age of 17.

Arsenal's u18s got off to a fantastic start to the U18 Premier League in their Saturday opener against Aston Villa at London Colney.

So another season has been and gone, with all the excitement, disappointment and Tottenham schadenfreude that comes with being an Arsenal fan in the Emirates era.

Arsenal u19s lost the final of the prestigious Spax Cup on Monday, falling to a 3-0 defeat against FC Schalke 04.

What if Arsenal haven't signed a world class striker because the club believe they have one in the academy, just waiting to develop?

Compared to Toni Kroos in the summer, Arsenal signing Vlad Dragomir has netted his first official goal for the club and he showed flashes...

Arsenal u18s beat Norwich 2-0.