Ainsley Maitland-Niles: Yutility

[Neo-Harambist]

If he's 3/64's as good as his tv celebrity chef counterpart, we might end up having the best utility player in England, since a peak John O'Shea.

 

[Hunta]

If he's 3/64's as good as his tv celebrity chef counterpart, we might end up having the best utility player in England, since a peak John O'Shea.

 

[GDeep™]

Nothing better than a player developing through your club.

 

[Neo-Harambist]

 

[GDeep™]

Why you guys posting Lenny Henry gifs?

 

[krengon]

 

[say yes]

 

[Garrincha]

 

[Jack the lad]

We should get rid of coquelin in the summer. He is our worst midfielder by a long distance.

 

[MutableEarth]

We should get rid of coquelin in the summer. He is our worst midfielder by a long distance.

AMN advocate though I may be, he has a hell of a lot of work to do before he can displace Coquelin.

 

[rich 1990]

This kid is going to be rubbish.

 

[Rocky]

AMN advocate though I may be, he has a hell of a lot of work to do before he can displace Coquelin.

Out of Arsenal's current midfield, to me he looks most similar to Elneny in terms of build and technique.

 

[Garrincha]

The role he played today is exactly what we need in the bigger games alongside a Coquelin type.

Probably too early but his season is shaping up very much like Iwobi last year... Now Iwobi is rested for the FA cup games!

 

[BBF]

He's absolute quality for his age, whether he breaks through on a first team level is a different story though. But with his versatility he'll definitely be part of our future.

It's also always special to see one of our own coming through

 

[Wryer]

Assured passing and interceptions. We'll see what he's made of when he is eased into higher quality matches. The prognosis is superb. Love his calmness and distribution.

what is his natural position in the youth teams?

 

[Hunta]

Mentioned this when he was on loan at Ipswich, when a lot of other lads were getting hyped up in our reserves, the likes of Zelalem, Crowley, Akpom and Iwobi (to be fair), this guy was the first one loaned out to a championship team to get games.

That might have been down to his mum lol but it does seem like Wenger always rated this guy as one of the best of his age group. He got loaned out and played 30 times in the championship at the age of 17/18 ffs.

 

[Impact]

^ Not to mention Wenger gave him his CL debut at 17.

 

[bingobob]

He looked assured against a much changed Southampton team. I hope we keep him around the first team especially with our shortage at midfield currently then look to loan to a decent PL team or high flying Championship team. I'm sure Bournemouth wouldn't want another one of our players.

Other than that while exciting let's keep our perspective in check.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

against Preston he was lost playing right back he seem way better playing center midfield i was really impressed the way he keep the ball and pass the ball he seem so confident remind me of Iwobi when he played in first team.

 

[AquaticGunner]

I wouldn't be surprised if he moved ahead of Elneny in the pecking order by the end of the season.

Are you kidding? Ahead of Elneny, wont happen