Ethan Nwaneri is reluctant to signal a brand new deal at Arsenal with out assured enjoying time, talkSPORT understands.
Nwaneri is into the ultimate 12 months of his Gunners contract and has curiosity from a number of prime European golf equipment.
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The England Below-21 ahead, who’s the youngest participant in Premier League historical past, scored 4 targets in 26 league appearances within the 2024/25 season.
Solely 11 of these 26 league encounters noticed him begin with the 18-year-old battling the likes of Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard for a beginning spot.
In addition to a number of prime golf equipment within the continent, Chelsea are additionally stated to be monitoring Nwaneri‘s state of affairs.
He is made it clear he has ambitions to have an enduring impression on the sport, saying he needs to win the Ballon d’Or.
When requested if that meant he needed to be a Ballon d’Or contender, the Gunners ace instructed talkSPORT: “100 per cent, yeah.
“That is simply the purpose, however positively. I’ve acquired that at the back of my thoughts.”
Nwaneri is a graduate of Arsenal‘s Hale Finish academy having been on their books since he was eight years outdated.
He got here by way of the ranks alongside Myles Lewis-Skelly, who has turn out to be an everyday fixture at left-back underneath Mikel Arteta.
Arteta opted to offer Nwaneri a cameo first-team look firstly of the 2022/23 season, the teenager approaching throughout a 3-0 win at Brentford in September 2022.
Nwaneri turned the Premier League’s youngest ever participant at 15 years and 181 days outdated and in addition turned the Gunners’ youngest ever participant in any competitors.
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He made one Premier League look within the 2023/24 season earlier than absolutely making the bounce to the first-team in 2024/25.
The London-born starlet made 37 appearances in all competitions, scoring 9 targets within the course of with 4 coming within the Premier League and two within the Champions League.
The choose of Nwaneri’s targets noticed him curl in a fantastic effort from distance throughout Arsenal’s 5-1 shellacking of Manchester Metropolis in February.
Regardless of many profitable outcomes, the season ended with out silverware for Arsenal as they got here second within the league for a 3rd successive marketing campaign.
In the meantime, they had been knocked out of the semi-finals of each the Champions League and Carabao Cup and fell on the first hurdle within the FA Cup.
Nwaneri’s quest to turn out to be extra of a first-team common will likely be made tougher if Arsenal full the signing of Noni Madueke from Chelsea.
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talkSPORT understands Arsenal and the winger have agreed private phrases, though the north London membership are but to formally strategy the England worldwide’s present employers.
