According to the Daily Star,
ARSENAL are preparing a bid for Millwall’s teenage starlet Fred Onyedinma.
But they will have to fight off competition from Liverpool and Manchester City to land the 16 year-old.
Attacking midfielder Onyedinma has been watched by a host of top flight clubs this season after impressing for Millwall’s youth sides.
The battle to sign him is now down to a three-horse race with the Gunners set to make the first move.
Arsenal, Liverpool and City all had scouts monitoring Onyedinma in his last game against Brighton.
He has already trained with Millwall’s first team and scored twice in his last four games for the Lions’ Under-21s.
But he is yet to sign a professional deal so will only cost a compensation fee, which is likely to be in the region of £200k.
I seriously don’t know how many youngsters are we going to sign? We already have so many waiting on the wings to play first team football. Is it really important to sign youngsters if we are just going to sell them again like Tom Ince? I think we should first give chance to the current crop of youngsters already at the club before signing anymore youngsters unless some real special talent is available. I would like to see us investing in first team players this season.
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