Arsenal’s 11 best academic players of all time

Arsenal’s Hale end Academy has re -occupied the center stage this season as they continue to produce talents for the first team at an impressive speed.

While Mikel Arteta Side were seen like Joe Willock, Reissa Nelson, Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe pass on to others Premier league Parties since he graduated from the Academy under Spanish surveillance, young people continue to dominate the Arsenal Department.

Now it is a cloak that has taken over early talents Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri, both of them already tolerate their claims that the first team monks are because Gunners look challenging for the big honors of this season and in years to come.

They would not be the first stars of the Academy to enhance and become key men for the first team, and indeed Arsenal has a great record of youth promotions to help encourage success. With that in mind, we looked at the 11 best players who came out of their academy, focusing mainly on those who wrote an impact on Highbury and Emirates Stadium.

11

Emile Smith Rowe

2018-2024

Fans of Arsenal kindly known as “Croaton de Bruyne”, Emile Smith Rowe At an early age, he made a move to northern London from southern London and went through the ranks as part of the strong crop of the talent of Arsenal.

After a few magic of the loan, Mikel Arthta finally finally threw him into the first team and made an almost current influence, playing the central role because Arsenal’s form drastically improved in what was otherwise difficult season behind the closed door for the club.

In addition to Bukayo Saka, he introduced a new factor of feelings at the Emirates Stadium in the early parts of the 2021/22 campaign, scoring 10 goals while Arsenal finished fifth.

Injuries and new signatures have pushed him to the order of northern London in the seasons that followed, and in the summer of 2024 he sold to Fulham in an agreement of £ 34 million, becoming to sign a Cottagers and compensate for the second highest fee for transfer in history Arsenal.

10

Michael Thomas

1986-1992

“Now she’s to catch!”

The iconic line of comments was followed by a goal that was forever engraved by Michael Thomas in books on the history of Arsenal, and a star born in Lambeth scored a winning goal against Liverpool in the 1988/89 season for Arsenal Crown as champion of the first division at Anfield in front of the hosts in front of the host is considered one of the greatest in the history of the club.

Thomas, midfielder, Thomas appeared more than 200 times for passengers, together with several partners, because he assisted in Arsenal Challenge on top of English football before he turned out with George Graham and eventually sold him to Liverpool, where he won 150 more appearances .

9

Paul Merson

1986-1997

Also part of that cover side of 1989 was young Paul Merson, a tickling wing player who was able to play on any side.

Merson appeared more than 400 times for artillery during a 11-year-old stay with the senior side, and after being on the edge of the team, it was a 1988/89 campaign, where it really rose to a prominent, playing 37 of their 38 league games and Finding a net 10 times before continuing a better character in 1990/91, while Arsenal tasted the title once more.

Winning every domestic trophy from the artillery during his 11 years with the club, Merson was another case of the Academy who struck gold.

8

Andy Cole

1989-1992

Although no success of his success came to North London, it felt wrong leaving one of the biggest goals in the Premier League.

Cole has ever played twice for Arsenal’s first team before being sold to Bristol City, but proved that everyone in northern London was wrong while winning five Premier League tities in his entire career that included magic in Manchester United, Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers, among others.

Korjnik who found a net 34 times in one season for Newcastle, Cole was part of the 1999 Manchester United Trengeet, and the time of writing sits fourth on the Premier League list, all-time all-time with 187, with 187, although would Mohamed Salah soon say something about it.

7

Jack Wilshere

2008-2018

Perhaps the last big talent of the Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal Reign Academy, a multitude of Gunners fans will go to bed, wondering what Jack Wilshere could have become in shape, such was his immense talent.

Announcement in the world at the age of only 19 in the Champions League while walking in the middle of the field consisting of Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets, there were plenty of hyper around Wilshere Arsenal and England.

But the injuries meant that the 2010/11 campaign remained the highlight of his career, because Wilshere could not repeat his availability in any of the campaigns that followed. Nevertheless, his ascent remained a source of inspiration for those at the Academy, and returned to the Arsenal lineup as a coach after an early pension from the game.

6

Martin Keown

1984-1985 and 1993-2004

The career of Arsenal Martin Keown was far from the immediate, because the defender went through the Academy but failed to break into the first team, which led to Arsenal to sell English at Aston Villa in 1986.

After seven years at the top, Gunners decided to bring him back to North London, and in this second magic that the foundation of Arsenal’s history became the stone of Arsenal.

Regular in defense, he helped Shepherd Arsenal up to three Premier League titles, including the few features of their well -known campaign for Invincibles, continuing almost 450 appearances for his boyish club.

5

Air salon

1991-2004

Like Keown, Salor’s last flourishing in Arsenal’s colors came as part of the Invincibles Department because he helped Arsenal to be undefeated during the 2003/04 campaign. It was the end of a historic career in northern London for “Romford Pele”, which saw him Mammoth 465 performs for the club as a diligent, not a fertile, midfielder.

Favorite favorite for his work rate, Parlor enjoyed a trophy time in northern London, winning the League Cup, three Premier League titles and four FA Cups.

4

Bukayo Saka

2018

The current boy from Arsenal, Bukayo Saka It quickly breaks on these ladders.

Ever since he debuted in the Europa League 2018/19 under Unai Emery, the Englishman has been made by the Talisman figure and for the club and for the country, despite being only 23 years old.

He assisted in the charges of the title title in northern London, although in both cases his side was short. So far, he has only one FA Cup that will show his efforts at the Emirates Stadium, but if he stays in Arsenal, he will surely descend as one of their best players and almost certainly their best talent for the Academy.

3

Tony Adams

1983-2002

Nicknamed “Mr. Arsenal”, Tony Adams spent 20 years at the highest level with Gunners in a controversial career. Adams was a key part of the famous Arsenal back four during the 1990s, and during his time in northern London he won four tops of top flights.

Although he once struggled with addiction and sent to prison on one occasion, he remained an amazing footballer when he went out to the field, collecting a huge 655 appearances for a club he joined as a young man.

Such was his influence, he is one of the four statues currently outside the Arsenal home, as he is firmly retired as during his playing career.

2

Ashley Cole

1999-2006

From one of the most popular Arsenal players to the least of them, Ashley Cole was the best left back in England at the best of two decades, collecting over 100 caps for the national team.

He was also successful in Arsenal, played 32 times in the Invincibles season and looked like the wenger’s cornerstone before replacing Northern London for Western London while joining Chelsea on a free transfer.

He was even more successful with Arsenal’s rivals, won the Champions League, the Europa League, the Premier League and four FA Cups. Although unpopular, he was one of the best Arsenal for young people.

1

David O’Leary

1975-1993

Although not the most successful, David O’Leary is on top of our list. The Defender of the Republic of Ireland is the Arsenal record holder, after showing Mammoth 722 through the backs of Gunners – more than 50 more than any other player who played for the club.

In a career that stretched for almost two decades, O’Leary helped in Arsenal to avoid relegation with only 17 years to victory in the first division of 1989, and although he struggled with injuries in his latest seasons in northern London, he was always more than ready to put it in shift when he asked for yes.