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‘The best’: Emmanuel Frimpong says Leeds have a player who was up there with Jack Wilshere as a youngster
Arsenal have produced some inc🌺redible youngsters over the years.
Jack Wilsher, Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe are but a few, but there are so many more talented players who have passed through the Arsenal a♊cademy in recent years.
One player that you may not associate with Arsenal all that much is Luke Ayling. The right-back has largely made his name at Leeds United, but before he wa💟s marauding up and down the wing for the Yorkshire club, he was a y🎉oungster at Arsenal.
According to Emmanuel Frimpong, speaking on , Ayling was actually fantastic when he was at Arsenal, claiming that he was one of the best in his group technically, while also saying ཧthat the full-backs lack of pace 🅺was a real issue.
Ayling was one of the best
Frimpong spoke about ho♋w good the Leeds ace was as a yꦍoungster.
“Coquelin was good and he came later on. At the start Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Jack Wilshere, Sanchez Watt, Luke Ayling. Luke was very good, but L💟♌uke was very slow right. Technically he was the best, for a defender he was very good,” Frimpong said.
Got there eventually
Ayling may not have reached the heights expected of him at Arsenal early in his career, 💫but he managed to carve out a very decent run as a Premier League player at Leeds.
At one point under Marcelo Bielsa, Ayling was even reported🔜ly considered for an England 🗹squad, and, as Frimpong says, perhaps if he was a bit more physically gifted, he’d have been a star.
These days, he’s a bit past his best, buﷺt, in all honesty, Ayling may well be the best right-back Leeds have had since Gary Kelly.
Ayl🐈ing may not have made it at Ars൩enal, but he’s a modern day great at Leeds.