Arsenal have snapped up highly-rated Barcelona youth product Georgios Spanoudakis, who previously rejected a number of offers to sign with Arsene Wenger’s side.
The 15-year-old central midfielder joined the Catalan club’s La Masia academy from Eintracht Frankfurt in 2009, but will now join Arsenal’s Under-18 set-up for the coming season.
Spanoudakis has made several appearances for Germany’s youth teams, but could still choose to play for Greece should he wish to transfer his nationality.
The Germany youth international is in the mold of former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas with an eye for a killer pass and technical ability.
Spanoudakis becomes the seventh signing of Arsenal’s youth team following Kristopher Da Graca, Ben Sheaf, Elias Hatzitheodoridis, Hugo Keto, Jonatas Centeno and Savvas Mourgos to the Emirates.
The Barca youngster’s signature won’t be the first that Wenger has grabbed over the years as the Frenchman has made a habbit of picking up some of the best Catalan talent.
Most notably, of course, Wenger plucked Fabregas from the Barcelona B team at just 16 years of age back in 2003.
