Three Arsenal stars amongst 14 PL stars advance for Golden Boy award | OneFootball

Arsenal could well have the brightest talent in world football on their books, with three of their young future stars nominated for the prestigious Golden Boy award.

Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and William Saliba have all made the cut as being amongst the top 60 best young talents on the continent, and all three have claims to be amongst the top ten in my eyes, although top spot may be a bit of a reach.

The likes of Alphonso Davies, Erling Haaland and Jadon Sancho will find themselves amongst the favourites for the prestigious award, with the former’s exploits in the Champions League not doing any harm to his stock.

The award is to go to the best under-21 playing in Europe over a 12 month calendar year, meaning that there is still half a season to fight for the title that has been won by the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Lionel Messi and most recently, Joao Felix.

The full list of nominees as found on TuttoSport:

1) Karim-David ADEYEMI, RED BULL SALZBURG 2) Yacine ADLI, BORDEAUX 3) Marley AKE, OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE 4) Ethan Kwame Colm Raymond AMPADU, CHELSEA 5) Adil AOUCHICHE, SAINT-ETIENNE 6) Mitchel BAKKER, PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 7) Jude Victor William BELLINGHAM, BORUSSIA DORTMUND 8) Myron BOADU, AZ ALKMAAR 9) Eduardo CAMAVINGA, RENNES 10) Marco CARNESECCHI, ATALANTA 11) Rayan Mathis CHERKI, OLYMPIQUE LYON 12) Yan Bueno COUTO, MANCHESTER CITY 13) Jonathan Christian DAVID, LILLE 14) Alphonso Boyle DAVIES, BAYERN MUNICH 15) Sergiño Gianni DEST, AJAX 16) Daniel Soares FABIO SILVA, PORTO 17) Anssumane Vieira FATI, BARCELONA 18) Philip Walter FODEN, MANCHESTER CITY 19) Zeljko GAVRIC, RED STAR BELGRADE 20) Lutsharel GEERTRUIDA, FEYENOORD 21) Matias GONCALO RAMOS, BENFICA 22) Amine Ferid GOUIRI, NICE 23) Ryan Jiro GRAVENBERCH, AJAX 24) Mason Will John GREENWOOD, MANCHESTER UNITED 25) Erling Braut HALAND, BORUSSIA DORTMUND 26) Luqman Shamsudin HAKIM, KORTRIJK 27) Callum James HUDSON-ODOI, CHELSEA 28) Mohamed Amine IHATTAREN, PSV EINDHOVEN 29) Curtis Julian JONES, LIVERPOOL 30) Ozan Muhammed KABAK, SCHALKE 04 31) Tanguy-Austin Nianzou KOUASSI, BAYERN MUNICH 32) Takefusha KUBO, REAL MADRID 33) Mohammed KUDUS, AJAX 34) Dejan KULUSEVSKI, JUVENTUS 35) Gabriel Teodoro Silva MARTINELLI, ARSENAL 36) Patricio NEHUEN PEREZ, ATLETICO MADRID 37) Michael Oluwadurotimi OBAFEMI, SOUTHAMPTON 38) Paulo Henrique Sampaio Filho PAULINHO, BAYER LEVERKUSEN 39) Strahinja PAVLOVIC, AS MONACO 40) Pedro Gonzalez Lopez PEDRI, BARCELONA 41) Lomba PEDRO NETO, WOLVERHAMPTON 42) Eduardo Filipe Vieira Coimbra Simoes QUARESMA, SPORTING LISBON 43) Euclides Soares RAFAEL CAMACHO, SPORTING LISBON 44) Jesus Carvalho REINIER, REAL MADRID 45) Silva de Goes RODRYGO, REAL MADRID 46) Bukayo SAKA, ARSENAL 47) William Alain André Gabriel SALIBA, ARSENAL 48) Jadon Malik SANCHO, BORUSSIA DORTMUND 49) Kouassi Ryan SESSEGNON, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 50) Dominik SZOBOSZLAI, RED BULL SALZBURG 51) Tomas Franco TAVARES, BENFICA 52) Mateus Cardoso Lemos Martins TETE, SHAKHTAR DONETSK 53) Lago Pontes TOMÁS ESTEVES, PORTO 54) Ferran Garcia TORRES, MANCHESTER CITY 55) Heorhiy TSITAISHVILI, DYNAMO KIEV 56) Yari VERSCHAEREN, ANDERLECHT 57) José Paixao de Oliveira VINICIUS JUNIOR, REAL MADRID 58) Machado VITOR FERREIRA, PORTO 59) Neco Shay WILLIAMS, LIVERPOOL 60) Joshua Orobosa ZIRKZEE, BAYERN MUNICH

The shortlist was cut from the top 100 this wee, down to 60, but just how far can Saliba and Saka make it, assuming Gabriel’s injury will rule him out of making enough impact for the 2020 edition?

Patrick