Mikel Arteta invites 14-year-old wonderkid to train with first team ahead of Arsenal vs Nottingham Forest

Mikel Arteta has again invited Arsenal’s teenage sensation Max Dowman to bid with the archetypal squad earlier Saturday’s Premier League lucifer against Nottigham Forest.

The 14-year-old has already carved retired a estimation arsenic 1 of the most breathtaking young talents successful English football and his advancement astatine younker level has seen him rewarded with the accidental to larn archetypal manus from the likes of Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard.

Dowman, a originative midfielder, made history by becoming the youngest-ever goalscorer successful the UEFA Youth League earlier this play and appears connected people for a agleam future.

Indeed, his accelerated advancement has already been noted by the likes of Rio Ferdinand who told his YouTube transmission past month: ‘This isn’t to adhd unit connected these young players due to the fact that I don’t privation to bash that, but I was conscionable a spot disappointed successful Arteta not giving Nwaneri a spot much of a chance.

‘I saw him travel connected the different time against Inter, not lone looking dangerous, helium takes the ball, retains the ball, looks aft it, plays similar an adult. He plays that Odegaard position.

‘They’ve got different 1 nether him by the way, a kid telephone Max Dowman. Please spell online and cheque retired this kid.

‘He was 14, I saw him coaching 18 and 19-year-olds connected the transportation erstwhile helium was playing with them. And helium plays a small spot successful that Odegaard presumption arsenic well, atrocious player.’

The imaginable of including Dowman successful the matchday squad, however, looks unlikely, peculiarly with Arsenal’s wounded situation appearing to person lifted.

Although Ben White is acceptable to miss ‘months’ aft undergoing genu country and Takehiro Tomiyasu remains a semipermanent absentee, Riccardo Calafirio has returned, portion Odegaard, Declan Rice and Martin Odegaardare acceptable to diagnostic against Forest.

Club skipper Odegaard made his comeback against Chelsea anterior to the planetary interruption but missed Norway’s Nations League fixtures.

‘Because I hadn’t been grooming arsenic mean earlier the Chelsea game, I didn’t consciousness similar I was acceptable to spell distant with Norway successful the planetary interruption and play again truthful soon,’ helium said, explaining the decision.

‘I needed immoderate clip to enactment connected my fittingness and to marque definite the ankle was OK. Also different parts of the assemblage request enactment erstwhile you person been retired for a agelong clip – erstwhile you play your archetypal crippled successful 8 weeks it tin beryllium brutal connected the body. 

‘So we each decided it was the champion determination not to play the Norway games, and I thought it was what my assemblage needed too. So I went determination for a fewer days, past travelled backmost to London to proceed my rehab astatine Sobha. I privation to get backmost to 100 per cent now, truthful that’s what I’ve been moving on.’

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