{"id":125,"date":"2026-02-21T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=125"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:10:26","slug":"arsenal-tie-up-star-max-dowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal tie up star Max Dowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Arsenal confirmed this Friday that <strong>16-year-old pearl Max Dowman has signed a pre-contract with the club<\/strong> which will allow him to sign his first professional contract when he meets <strong>17 years in December<\/strong>.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Dowman <strong>At 15 years and 234 days he became the second youngest footballer to play for Arsenal<\/strong>when he debuted against <strong>Leeds United<\/strong> in August.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Regular since last season in first team training, <strong>Dowman has played five games this season<\/strong> with the &#8216;Gunners&#8217;, but is currently out due to an ankle problem.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">In the quarry, <strong>He has scored 27 goals and distributed ten assists in the 34 games<\/strong> who has played between the U18 and U21 teams.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">&#8220;This means everything to me and my family. We are all Arsenal fans and I feel like I belong here. <strong>I want to thank the coaches, my teammates and, most importantly, my family and friends, who have brought me to where I am today.<\/strong>&#8220;Dowman said.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been at this club my whole life, so this means a lot. There is a very clear path here, with players who have come out of the youth system, like <strong>Bukayo (Saka), Myles (Lewis-Skelly) and Ethan (Nwaneri)<\/strong>which have inspired me. &#8220;It&#8217;s incredible to have examples like that who have gone through the same thing as me.&#8221;<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal confirmed this Friday that 16-year-old pearl Max Dowman has signed a pre-contract with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}