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Player Profile: Serge Gnabry
The acquisitions of Jon Toral and Hector Bellerin from Barcelona in the summer garnered much publicity, but another player who arrived in the close season...
Reflections on the benefits of this season’s Carling Cup
Arsenal's Carling Cup exits in recent seasons have tended to be tinged with immense feelings of disappointment. The humiliation at the hands of Burnley in...
Arsenal duo take their talents to England’s third tier
Luke Freeman and Chuks Aneke know eachother well enough, having featured regularly for Arsenal together, first for the under-18s and then at Reserve level, for...
Watt faced with contrasting examples of potential career paths
For all the time spent on the training field and all of the minutes of action they receive at reserve and youth level, sometimes it...
Difficult decisions to be made on hopefuls
This season, the Arsenal Academy passed the landmark of 50 internally-produced players having represented the first-team in a competitive fixture. For some of the youngsters...
Promising pair could provide long-term competition for Szczesny
Following the loss of form and, subsequently, the departure of Jens Lehmann during his maiden spell at the club, the Arsenal goalkeeping position became something...
Carling Cup youngsters preparing for next step
Contrary to last season, when only a small number of youngsters were called upon, Arsene Wenger has reverted to his usual Carling Cup policy of,...
Reserves lose with Carling Cup on horizon
Arsenal Reserves saw their unbeaten start to the season come to an end with defeat against West Brom at the Hawthorns last night, in the...
Arsenal assessing merits of ‘Youth Champions League’
The Champions League is Europe's premier club competition and is broadcast in over 100 countries worldwide, but would a youth version of it, on a...
Talented pair anticipating potentially decisive loan spells
Loan spells can prove to be the making, or in some cases, the undoing of a potentially promising young footballer.
Jack Wilshere and Wojciech Szczesny, for...
New scholars settling in prior to long road ahead
Every summer, Arsenal award scholarship contracts to several promising players. When the process occurred this year, however, there seemed to be a greater sense of...
Oxlade-Chamberlain and Coquelin impress as Arsenal eventually win through in Carling Cup
The Carling Cup returned last night as Arsenal took on Shrewsbury and, for long periods in the first-half it seemed as if an upset may...
Wenger seeking correct balance with Carling Cup selection
For the majority of Arsene Wenger's tenure as Arsenal manager, the Carling Cup has been used as something of a stepping stone for youngsters seeking...
History urges caution when predicting bright futures
48 players have represented the Arsenal first-team having graduated from the club's Academy system since its inception in 1998, and that figure could well pass...
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