Arsenal sign 4 year old

Seen some clips of him, his touch is genuinely better than Pepe's

Sooner start him than Xhaka tbf

This is the proof that ALL football clubs need to be point blank banned from signing children under upper high school ages. This sh!t is messed up in a big way and this poor kid's the poster child for just how demented things have gotten. He's feckin FOUR FGS, leave the kid be to have a normal life a bit longer jeez.

Doesn't get more "Merc industry and parental greed preying on kids," than this really. Ban clubs from approaching/signing any child less than 16. They want the talent out there to get good coaching and training before 16 then FECKIN WELL INVEST BIG IN GRASS ROOTS AND NATIONAL SCHOOLS FOOTBALL!!!

A PL/FA and government funded school/after-school system can discover/scout, train and mentally prepare more talented young footballers than their football academies ever could. They'll get mini versions of great footballers popping up all over the country every year along with a bundle of talented 16 yr olds who've finished school and are actually READY to be focused in the way the modern game desires. Meanwhile lil babies tots and tweenies can be left the feck alone to just get to be kids.

When I was about 8, I wrote to Ron Saunders at Aston Villa, asking for a trial. He wrote personally wrote a letter back saying write back when you are 13.
Imagine that now. I'd be invited down the next week!

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 32 minutes ago
When I was about 8, I wrote to Ron Saunders at Aston Villa, asking for a trial. He wrote personally wrote a letter back saying write back when you are 13.
Imagine that now. I'd be invited down the next week!
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Actually according to this you'd get a letter back saying "Sorry but you're too old for us to consider now, you should have written back when you were at nursery."

Nice of Ron though

comment by WB2 {Tackle Like Tierney} (U8276)
posted 46 seconds ago
Nice of Ron though
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Yeah very nice. I'm sure the letter is still at my Mum's somewhere!
Btw, I was nowhere near good enough, in fact I ended up playing for my village reserves side!

All bantz aside it’s pretty disgraceful

Arsenal have denied signing the kid. Just media sensationalism. He is not at Hale End and is training with other kids at a different football academy.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-sign-four-year-old-25270298

comment by Grand Cannon (U18697)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
Arsenal have denied signing the kid. Just media sensationalism. He is not at Hale End and is training with other kids at a different football academy.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-sign-four-year-old-25270298
----------------------------------------------------------------------That's pretty much "He's not at our official academy but he's training at one of the others that we finance and run "

He'll be joining Arsenal eventually, his mum and dad already have a big fat cheque making sure of that but shhh