Arsenal sitting on £152m goldmine as stunning new updates emerge

Arsenal have two of the seven most valuable teenagers in world football in Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly, according to one statistical model.

Barcelona, Chelsea and Real Madrid are the other clubs with multiple players in the top 10. The Blues have Estevao and Geovany Quenda, the latter of whom they agreed to sign last summer.

Lamine Yamal leads the way with a value exceeding £300million and Estevao ranks second at just over £100million. Yamal's teammate, Pau Cubarsi, is next at £99million, with Madrid's Franco Mastantuono fourth at £90million.

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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery comes in at £81million for sixth, just above both Arsenal academy graduates.

Nwaneri ranks higher with a value of £77million, which is £2million more than his team-mate Lewis-Skelly. It means the pair are worth a whopping £152m to Arsenal.

Max Dowman does not feature on the list of 113 teenagers with an estimated value of at least £8.8million already. However, no one younger than 17 years old is included, with Liverpool winger Rio Ngumoha the youngest listed.

Dowman does not turn 16 until New Year's Eve. As for the pair who do feature, Lewis-Skelly remains 19 until September next year, while Nwaneri will still be in his teens until March 2027.

They have combined to make 99 appearances for the first team. That total won't reach a century until after the international break, though, as neither came on as a substitute against Sunderland in the 2-2 draw on Saturday evening.

The values are from the International Centre for Sports Studies' Football Observatory and its statistical model. An article in the International Journal of Financial Studies outlines that it is from a sample of 8,389 permanent transfers, involving 6,347 players, that took place between July 2014 and March 2024.

Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are the only Premier League teams with more players on the list than Arsenal. Marc Guiu, Jorrel Hato and Josh Acheampong join Estevao and Quenda.

Spurs, meanwhile, have Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall and Mikey Moore, the latter of whom is on loan at Rangers. Brighton boasts Charalampos Kostoulas, Malick Yalcin, and Stefanos Tzimas, while the Cherries have Ben Gannon-Doak, Eli Junior Kroupi, and Veljko Milosavljevic.

Arsenal, however, are the only English club with multiple academy graduates on the list. Of those mentioned, Acheampong and Moore are the only ones to come through their club's academy.

Mikel Arteta said in the summer that the club "want to get as much talent as we possibly can from the academy and bring it up to the first team." The manager explained: "The way they adapt at that age, I could not do - but I think this generation goes faster. They are ready a little bit earlier.

"We don't have to rush. Make sure we manage the right steps and the right expectations for all of them, and then let's see what they demand."