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Youth team development

goon

They both seem close. Can't hurt that Sancho is watching Nelson get some game time.

evoh1

Can't see why any young players would want to rot under loan after loan at Chelsea or the no chance offered at city and united. Chelsea have a top young defender and loan him for 3 years to 1st Division teams yet don't give him.a chance and buy a guy from Italy.

Arsenl an Tottenham are the only top club offering a chance of making it at a top club from youth level

Ricky1985

Ray wrote:
Looks like Sancho is joining a London team, and Nelson has asked him to come to Arsenal.

In the Instagram picture Sancho posted that Nelson commented on, above the word "London" are the words "Red Bull" - that seems a bigger clue to me. And Leipzig have been heavily linked to him also.

QuincyAbeyie

You think he's chosen Leipzig instead of us?

Ricky1985

That's what the post suggests to me but I hope I'm wrong.

Ricky1985

U23s playing Derby tonight, strong team:

Huddart, Maitland-Niles, Bielik, Bramall, Nelson, Coquelin, Wilshere, Gibbs, Reine-Adelaide, Willock, Nketiah.

It's 2-2 with 5 minutes to go, we were 2-0 down. Haven't been able to watch myself, but Derby have shown the game on their website and lots of people are saying Reiss Nelson has been utterly superb. He started at right wing back - we're playing 3-4-3 - scored one from there and then scored this when he got moved inside to one of the attacking midfield roles about 10 minutes ago:

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Ricky1985

3-2 Arsenal. Nketiah!

Rohit

One blog also had Jack as the best player on the pitch in the first half.

Ricky1985

Yep, heard Jack was decent.

It finished 3-2. Two Arsenal comebacks in the space of a few days.

goon

It's a good sign that Nelson's quality shows at this level. It was the same with Jack when he was breaking through.

MistaT

Nelson playing everywhere (RB then AM), quality shines through.

Gazza M

cant wait too more of nelson. pray to bergkamp he stays healthy

Ricky1985

After Jack, it would be tough to take Nelson not fulfilling his immense potential because of injury. I've been jumping up and down about this kid for years now, waiting patiently for his time to come. Just give him good luck and nothing can stop him from doing great things in that red and white shirt of ours.

Seen a few rumours around that Jadon Sancho was training at Colney last week.... hope they're true.

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banduan

Lad has excellent vision.

mohan

Exciting prospect.

Gazza M

just throwing it out there but his dribbling and linkup play reminds me of neymar, stylistically

banduan

That dink at 30 sec. That's Ozil-like vision.

est

It's really not that difficult to spot an overlap. The precision of the dink was far more impressive than the vision involved.

Wish Wenger gave Nelson some chances as a forward instead of Theo and Welbeck.

goon

Gazza M wrote:
just throwing it out there but his dribbling and linkup play reminds me of neymar, stylistically

I was thinking the same but didn't want to say it as I feared I would inadvertently summon Kamikaze to rise and lecture us on how non of these over hyped youngsters will ever make it.

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