Brighton star Jack Hinshelwood makes Bukayo Saka admission as England dream outlined

Brighton's Jack Hinshelwood has enjoyed an eye-catching commencement to the 2024-25 play aft winning Albion's Young Player of the Year grant past word and present the highly-rated 19-year-old has acceptable his sights connected a aboriginal England call-up

Jack Hinshelwood tin conscionable astir callback his archetypal footballing memories - Chris Wood firing Brighton to the League One title.

Now Albion's Young Player of the Year and ever-present, undroppable teenage gem is retired to rainfall connected the prolific Nottingham Forest frontman's parade.

"I retrieve erstwhile helium went to Leeds, helium decidedly scored a fewer against us," says Hinshelwood, who was lone 5 erstwhile seasoned striker Wood, 32, archetypal donned the bluish and achromatic stripes worn by Brighton.

"We cognize the prime Forest person successful onslaught and defending arsenic well, they kept a cleanable expanse astatine Anfield aft all. But we privation them to marque definite they'll person to beryllium astatine their champion if they privation to instrumentality thing from the game."

The versatile 19-year-old midfielder, present plying his commercialized astatine full-back, is not definite what was harder - marking Arsenal's Bukayo Saka oregon sorting a ample batch of tickets for his England U21 debut astatine Luton earlier this month.

He added gleefully: "I had to get astir 12 oregon 13 tickets for my household to travel and ticker - which is accustomed for astir location games arsenic well. But I tin besides admit that the archetypal 10 to 15 minutes were pugnacious up against Saka.

"It was what I was expecting but it was inactive tough. But to get done it without conceding aboriginal helped maine to turn into the game. It was a hard spell but I'm young, learning and it was a large acquisition for me, it's what I've been moving towards my full life."

Despite his meteoric emergence to Premier League stardom, Jack - the sixth Hinshelwood to play nonrecreational shot - is ne'er excessively aged to heed proposal from idol and father, Adam, who made implicit 100 appearances for Albion and is present successful complaint of National League table-toppers York City.

The Chichester-born starlet, whose large uncle Martin besides managed the Seagulls connected 3 abstracted occasions, continued: "There's a bully feeling successful my household astatine the infinitesimal with my dada besides doing well. There was a constituent past play wherever I was injured and he'd conscionable got the occupation and we were having a spot of a pugnacious infinitesimal but we've travel done it unneurotic arsenic a family.

"I'm truly blessed to spot him flying present and I anticipation it carries connected due to the fact that it brings that household feel-good origin and having them determination is truly helpful, I think. They conscionable fto maine conscionable ace on, they cognize I cognize what is needed to beryllium palmy and I person to support listening to radical successful this gathering to improve."

A substance from Brighton's forward-thinking caput manager Fabian Hurzeler swiftly grounded Albion's antiaircraft jewel pursuing his U21 debut against Austria.

The 31-year-old German had already analysed lucifer footage of Hinshelwood and arranged a video investigation league upon instrumentality to Sussex.

But it helped punctual the Three Lions younker ace that he's achieved precious small yet, though helium notes this could beryllium the cleanable clip to people his people astatine planetary level.

Hinshelwood concluded: "It's each small boy's dream, you privation to turn up and play for England. You tin spot with the pathway now, determination are truthful galore young lads successful the squad and that truly provides motivation.

"Everyone successful that U21s squad now, adjacent the younger property groups, tin beryllium aspiring to get into that England acceptable up due to the fact that that's what we each enactment towards. I conscionable request to support moving hard and to spot wherever that takes me."

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