Arsenal teen Marli Salmon was named on the bench for the primary time within the Premier League in Saturday’s game against Aston Villa.
Salmon, 16, is one in every of a crop of thrilling kids coming by the Arsenal academy and is in the identical age group as Max Dowman, who has already made his first-team debut.
He was one in every of two 15-year-olds on the Arsenal pre-season tour of Asia and featured in opposition to AC Milan and Newcastle United in Singapore.
The now 16-year-old recurrently trains with the primary workforce and has captained Arsenal Beneath-19s within the Uefa Youth League.
Salmon was initially scouted as a ahead however was moved to centre-back in his first trial on the membership and has stayed there ever since.
And with William Saliba, Gabriel and Cristhian Mosquera lacking the Villa sport by harm, {the teenager} was introduced in for defensive cowl.
He first educated with the primary workforce when he joined the pre-season camp in Spain, simply earlier than the tour of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Some supporters have in contrast the teen to Saliba – his calmness and talent to learn the sport are just like the France centre-back.
Salmon has been extremely rated by coaches for a very long time at Arsenal, and making the bench for the primary time at Villa Park is an enormous step in his growth.
He would possibly be a part of teenage sensations Rio Ngumoha of Liverpool and Chelsea’s Estevao Willian in that includes within the prime flight this season.
