Five things you didn’t know about Arsenal arrival Rob Holding

It’s less than a year since he made his Bolton debut

We’re more than aware that the time it takes to join one of England’s elite clubs nowadays is shortening and shortening each year.

You can be a prospect in the Football League one minute and given the sophistication and efficiency of scouring nowadays, a Premier League switch can be just around the corner.

That could well prove the case for Holding who actually made his professional Bolton Wanderers debut less than a year ago on August 11th, 2015 in a 1-0 League Cup defeat to Burton Albion.

He experienced a rather short-lived loan spell at Bury prior to this.