Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger has ignored Nigeria’s Kelechi Nwakali as he named the young players who will be promoted to the first team next season. With this development, the 2015 U-17 World Youth Championship Most Valuable Player (MVP) is set to spend another year out on loan.
The precocious talent moved to Arsenal last summer, after impressing at the 2015 U-17 World Youth Championship, where Nigeria won gold. But was loaned to Dutch second division side MVV Maastricht, where his performances were monitored by the North London club.
It now seems that Nwakali has failed to convince Wenger that he has become that midfielder who is ready to make the step up.
In announcing the promotion, Wenger said: “We have some young players who will join the squad next season,” Wenger told Arsenal Player.
“Like Reiss Nelson, like Ainsley Maitland-Niles already. So they are two players.
“So we have quality players who might have a chance next season and hopefully we will be able to do that again because that’s part of the DNA of the club as well.
“The first quality we have that will be needed is to keep the [first-team] players together. The team has learned a lot, but to transfer that into the new season the first ingredient and the first request is that they stay together, that they fight together.
“So that’s basically my answer: let’s keep them all together.”
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