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So Arsenal sign Luke Freeman from Gillingham for a fee of 250,000 Million pounds up front possibly rising to 2 million on appearances.
On the player Arsene Wenger had to say:
“Yes, we will be pushing it through,” said the manager when asked about the Freeman deal. “I want to buy English,” he added with a smile.
“I met the boy and I like him. He has personality and he looks alert. He’s a striker and to play in a first team at 15 years of age is something special.
“We were quite well on the case and we are very positive that we will find an agreement with the club without going to compensation. We will pay them a transfer.”
From the image below he certainly seems very physically developed for aged 15 - perhaps in the mold of Bojan Krkic. The premise is he will go into the U-18s side as the likes of Barazite are now knocking on the door of the reserves and Carling Cup squads.
Hype will follow any young English player at the club and perhaps in hindsight of his comments on 'Theo Walcott and the England team', perhaps to temper this Wenger intimated his uncertainty of the development from talented youth to club star:
“Will they be professional footballers at Arsenal? I don’t know. The more you go down [in ages] the greater the margin of error. Sometimes you see a player at 13 and you think ‘absolutely amazing’ then two years later he has disappeared.
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