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For a club to have always prided themselves on promoting the talents of tomorrow, Arsenal are struggling to get the new hottest kid on the block - Chido Obi Martin - to commit his future to the North London giants. The 16-year-old striker sensation - who hit the headlines for scoring a tremendous 10 goals in one game against Liverpool's Under-16s - continued to excel for the Gunners at youth level in the 2023-24 season with a staggering 32 goals in the Under-18 Premier League. While Arsenal are understandably determined to keep Obi Martin on the books and have apparently improved their contract offer , the teenager is yet to decide his next destination and is thought to be attracting interest from German giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

Obi Martin currently plays his international football for Denmark, but he remains eligible to represent Nigeria , and here, Sports Mole looks at the best players of Nigerian descent to have played for the senior Arsenal team. © Reuters London-born striker Chuba Akpom holds dual UK and Nigerian citizenship - both of his parents are from the West African nation - and he was once regarded as one of the top prospects in Arsenal's Hale End academy. Akpom was just six years old when he joined the Arsenal academy ranks in 2002 and eventually made the breakthrough into the first team under Arsene Wenger , but he left having played just 12 games with no goals to boot.



However, the forward exploded during the 2022-23 Championship season with.

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