Arsenal's next Fabregas? Wonderkid Gedion Zelalem...

[Red Gunner]

passing ability

You could have mentioned Ozil when it came to passing ability and yet you chose Denilson?

[topgoon]

Mark Randall, Henri Lansbury and Fran Merida......

Henri Lansbury doesn't belong on that list, if you watch him in the championship he is a good player maybe not for a team in the top 4 but he looks better than half of the sh*te I see in midfield of most teams in the country. If he played for Saints he would be getting his bellend s*cked by the media about how he should be playing for England. With any luck he'll be up with Forest soon and we can see he's actually decent.

I watched him quite a bit in the season we won the Academy league and the youth FA cup and you could see he was good. A few of the players from that side are in the championship and of course Jack is in the 1st team but I wouldn't write off Lansbury.

Having watched a couple of games Zelalem has played in, he's quite good on the ball and can see a pass but he's so slight that he'd get knocked over in a 5mph breeze. If he can get past that obvious disadvantage he may have a future.

I think articles like that are totally unhelpful to a kid that age. Leave him alone and see how he develops.

Send him to a Wigan/Everton on loan and then we can start to make snide remarks about him. For the record, Mark Randall was always sh*t

[Gunner Rob]

At least I didnt pick Santos

http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2013/11/ ... on-met-sa/

note the man of the match performance from Denilson

[skizz_b]

Agreed about Lansbury and Randall. Lansbury deserved a chance in the team which he didn't get. Good luck to him.

[clockender1]

another small midfielder ?

[SteveO 35]

He's coming through just in time to solve the crisis of only having 12 midfielders available for the last few months of the season

[Henry Norris 1913]

a more accurate comparison would be gnabry, as in terms of spending time in our academy and making quick progress into the first team, and already featuring internationally.
but sixteen ffs, so much time for him to turn into a crock or just another flash in the pan

[singwordssosad]

hyping up a 16 year old is just wrong...

HL looks good the Championship, he's a key part of the Forest set up. As for Denilson, urghhhhh! Im most excited for Gnabrys continued progress...

[StuartL]

He does look the real deal, and I hope the rumours are true and he's going to start tonight. I agree these articles go over the top with hype, but he does have a hell of a lot of potential and could be a star in a few years, so I can understand why they ran it.

Between Gnabry, Eisfeld, Crowley and Zelalem I'm really excited we've got some genuine quality working their way to the senior team. I really hope they get to fulfill their potential with us.

Speaking of Fran Merida, he's now playing for a newly promoted team over in Brazil. That move to Atletico Madrid didn't work out, he went on loan somewhere and they let him go in the end, I think. I wonder if he wishes he'd stayed at Arsenal.

Haven't seen anything of Crowley but agree the others are certainly exciting prospects at their age, any chance we can train on a few decent defenders as well as attacking midfielders ?

[topgoon]

He does look the real deal, and I hope the rumours are true and he's going to start tonight. I agree these articles go over the top with hype, but he does have a hell of a lot of potential and could be a star in a few years, so I can understand why they ran it.

Between Gnabry, Eisfeld, Crowley and Zelalem I'm really excited we've got some genuine quality working their way to the senior team. I really hope they get to fulfill their potential with us.

Speaking of Fran Merida, he's now playing for a newly promoted team over in Brazil. That move to Atletico Madrid didn't work out, he went on loan somewhere and they let him go in the end, I think. I wonder if he wishes he'd stayed at Arsenal.

Haven't seen anything of Crowley but agree the others are certainly exciting prospects at their age, any chance we can train on a few decent defenders as well as attacking midfielders ?

Watched the highlights of the Peterborough Utd v Young gunners recently on the Pravda sight and even though these things are heavily edited it was a win and he was involved in everything that was good. No wonder Villa were f**ked off to see him go. Managed right this is a genuine talent.

As far as defenders are concerned, we could do a lot worse than getting Dan Burn off Fulham, he looks pretty decent and still quite young.

[Arsenal Till I Die]

Mark Randall, Henri Lansbury and Fran Merida......

Henri Lansbury doesn't belong on that list, if you watch him in the championship he is a good player maybe not for a team in the top 4 but he looks better than half of the sh*te I see in midfield of most teams in the country. If he played for Saints he would be getting his bellend s*cked by the media about how he should be playing for England. With any luck he'll be up with Forest soon and we can see he's actually decent.

I watched him quite a bit in the season we won the Academy league and the youth FA cup and you could see he was good. A few of the players from that side are in the championship and of course Jack is in the 1st team but I wouldn't write off Lansbury.

Having watched a couple of games Zelalem has played in, he's quite good on the ball and can see a pass but he's so slight that he'd get knocked over in a 5mph breeze. If he can get past that obvious disadvantage he may have a future.

I think articles like that are totally unhelpful to a kid that age. Leave him alone and see how he develops.

Send him to a Wigan/Everton on loan and then we can start to make snide remarks about him. For the record, Mark Randall was always sh*t

My comment of the players I listed is based on the dubbing of young players as ''the next ...'' rather than the ability of the listed players, or lack of in the case of Mark Randall.

I do think Lansbury is a decent player but not good enough for a team at the top. Which i fine, he gets the job done, he has a great drive - something you could see in his handful of games for us and hi loan spell at Norwich. He also scored a decent goal vs the scum at Shite Hart Lane in the League cup.

With Merida, I always thought we were foolish not to tie him to a contract but his time at Athetico Madrid wasn't exactly a ground breaking as anyone expected it to be. He's now at Clube Atlético Paranaense.

I don't think it is fair to place a big stigma over young players heads because if they don't perform as well as the media ha built them up to be, it is the player who gets the stick. Like what the media doe with the England football team builds them up to be World Class and they really just are....*****.

[SteveO 35]

If he really is the next Fabregas can someone find out the club he supported as a boy so we can put him down for a 2019 transfer there at half his market value

[TeeCee]

If he really is the next Fabregas can someone find out the club he supported as a boy so we can put him down for a 2019 transfer there at half his market value

Somalian parentage hasn't he? Could be the 'Orlando Pirates' he supported as a boy??

[Red Gunner]

If he really is the next Fabregas can someone find out the club he supported as a boy so we can put him down for a 2019 transfer there at half his market value

Somalian parentage hasn't he? Could be the 'Orlando Pirates' he supported as a boy??

Ethiopian actually...

So I think he has Ethiopian Coffee Sports Club DNA:

[SteveO 35]

If he really is the next Fabregas can someone find out the club he supported as a boy so we can put him down for a 2019 transfer there at half his market value

Somalian parentage hasn't he? Could be the 'Orlando Pirates' he supported as a boy??

Ethiopian actually...

So I think I think it'll be Ethiopian Coffee Sports Club:

Great. Gazidis will let him leave for a Nespresso machine and a 3 year supply of beans, paid in instalments over 3 years