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What will Arsenal’s U21 squad look like next season? Projections and predictions — a thread 🪡

As previously expected, U21 players, Butler-Oyedeji, Edwards, Forde, Gower, Henry-Francis, Salah-Eddine Oulad M’hand and Quesada-Thorn are all released. More surprisingly, Brian Okonkwo and Ismail Oulad M’hand have been released.

As expected, second-year scholars Dan Casey, Louie Copley, Cam’ron Ismail, Daniel Oyetunde and Will Sweet have all been offered professional contracts at the club.

Ex-Arsenal player Bradley Ibrahim has joined Plymouth Argyle for an undisclosed fee on a deal running until 2029. Bradley left Arsenal for Hertha Berlin 18 months ago, and had a productive loan spell last season in League One with Crawley.

Ex-Arsenal trialist Ronnie Gorman has been released by Brighton. It will be interesting to see whether Arsenal sign him, considering the small size of the U21 squad.

Ex-Arsenal player Joseph Olowu has signed for Stockport County on a deal running until 2028. Joseph left Arsenal in 2021 and won League Two last season with Doncaster.

Max Dowman has been given the squad number ‘99’ ahead of the 25/26 season — in which he is set to play a part in the first team.

Max was in at Hale End today. Seems he was wearing training kit from last season, despite other age groups receiving new kit. He will technically still be considered an U16 next season, so he may hold on to the ‘99’, due to it being the highest eligible kit number in the PL.