Talks held: Arsenal working on double transfer raid for winger and record-breaking midfielder

Meanwhile, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri are also still young and can improve further despite already playing a lot of first-team football.

Elsewhere, the likes of Marli Salmon and Jaden Dixon also look like they’ll be worth keeping an eye on in years to come, so if Bernard and Donczew join, it’ll be a very promising squad the Gunners are putting together for the long term.

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It’s crucial in modern football to be sustainable, so AFC will no doubt hope they can continue to promote players from their academy, like Bukayo Saka in particular, who can go on and strengthen the first-team without costing a transfer fee.

If things don’t work out, there’s also always the chance Arsenal can cash in on these players and make pure profit from their sales, as they did with former academy graduates Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe.