Reiss Nelson

“I have an elder brother who adores me and pushed me towards my goal. He just said 'go out and play.'”

“I just go with the flow, you know.”

“I was 17 when Arsene Wenger gave me my first Premier League start for Arsenal against Southampton and I was very immature when I was playing.”

“It's a great feeling to have a lot of big characters in the team who are willing to help the younger players come through and help them do well.”

“Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.”

“Where I come from, the estates are not so nice. It is a bit gritty.”

“I've got a lot of time and respect for Arsene, and I think he developed me into a good young man as well, and I'm very thankful for that.”

“Alex Iwobi has really helped me.”

“That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.”

“Arsenal are my boyhood club.”

“It was different coming from Hale End to London Colney. The coaching is so much different and the environment - you've got loads of first team players and world-class players there.”

“You can have a bad pass or a bad shot, but you need to do this to take the risk.”

“I want to keep doing what I'm doing and, if I do get the opportunity to play for the first team I will give everything.”

“For me, I just want to take things as they come.”

“On my estate, there are older guys and there are dangerous things happening. But I had my ball with me and that made me feel safe. That's where I developed my strength, mentality and ruthlessness.”

“For me, I always want to be the best player I can be.”

“I got scouted for Tottenham and was there for three to four weeks before a phone call from Arsenal came. The first session they wanted to sign me so, happy days, I didn't look back. I'm an Arsenal fan, everyone in my family is Arsenal, so it wasn't a hard decision.”

“My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.”

“I want to be an Arsenal legend.”

“Arsenal is my main goal.”