A promising future with Arsenal’s young guns

Thomas Eisfeld

My wild-card. Thomas joined Arsenal in January 2012 and despite been restricted by injury at first he had an impressive pre-season in Malaysia, scoring two goals. A goalscorer from midfield is something Arsenal haven’t had in a long time and only briefly with Cesc Fabregas, who took a while to find his shooting boots. Thomas put in a claim to be that future midfield scorer for Arsenal with 9 goals for the reserves. Thomas featured prominently for the reserves last season and put in a mouth-watering senior debut in his substitute appearance in the astonishing 7-5 game against Reading in the League Cup. Thomas’ game time this season will most likely be restricted to the cups but expect to see this young German pushing for a senior spot in a year or so.

There are many more players we should keep an eye on like Olsson, Bellerin, Toral, Aneke, Ansah, Miquel, Akpom, Campbell, Miyachi and new signing Sanogo but these are my picks for the moment. It may seem a little bit of a cheat to include two established first team players but of all the players under 21 at the club, these are the ones I see playing regularly in the next two years and my wild-card, Eisfeld.