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Arsenal legend Martin Keown has suggested the club could throw a teenager in during the title run-in, suggesting he \u201cdoesn\u2019t experience fear\u201d and could be the \u201cperfect man\u201d to come in and play.<\/p>\n
The Gunners have one of the strongest squads in Europe this season, and even bit-part players have had a say in proceedings. Max Dowman, 16, has had success in the first team this term, having looked completely at home during pre-season, when he was still 15.<\/p>\n
The creative teen became the youngest player ever to score in the Premier League when he bagged against Everton in March, which was just his third experience in the top flight, after assisting in his first-ever game.<\/p>\n
Dowman has also featured in three Champions League games, and with Arsene<\/strong>l\u2019s season now in its most important stages, with a two-point lead on Manchester City in the league and a first Champions League final since 2005\/06, Gunners legend Keown feels he could be a perfect player in some of the coming matches.<\/p>\n READ<\/strong><\/em>: Kylian Mbappe: \u2018End\u2019 in sight for Real Madrid star as Arsenal have \u2018one way\u2019 to seal incredible transfer<\/strong><\/p>\n He was responding to Owen Hargreaves, who told TNT Sports<\/em>: \u201cHe\u2019s a brilliant player. The thing that\u2019s impressed me most about him is his attitude, his mindset. I never see him cheer too much or get too down. He\u2019s so chilled.\u201d<\/p>\n Keown said: \u201cYou wonder if this is going to be the season where they give him his wings and throw him in there. We\u2019ve got a succession of No. 10s. (Eberechi) Eze\u2019s a 10, (Martin) Odegaard\u2019s a 10, (Kai) Havertz is a 10 now. Do you throw the youngster in? It\u2019s getting very close now.<\/p>\n \u201cWe talked a lot recently about fear, and how that\u2019s a disease in the game. And this is a young man who doesn\u2019t experience fear. So maybe he\u2019s the perfect man on the shelf to bring in and play.\u201d<\/p>\n READ<\/strong><\/em>: Arsenal radically change their stance on Hale End graduate<\/strong><\/p>\n With the fine margins for Arsenal, throwing a youngster in could go West, and there\u2019s little upside to him playing a few games at the back end of the season, whereas the downside of a mistake at this point could be huge.<\/p>\n Another former Gunner, Theo Walcott, hopes Dowman\u2019s progress isn\u2019t rushed. The winger himself went to a World Cup as a teenager, and hopes Dowman turns down the shock call<\/strong> if it comes from England this summer.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI hope he doesn\u2019t go. I don\u2019t mean it in a horrible way because if I could go back in time, I would change things. I would say to myself, \u2018no, no, don\u2019t do it,\u2019 but then try telling that to a 17-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE<\/strong><\/em>: Arsenal star reveals honest reason for transfer decision after leaving Chelsea \u2013 \u2018that\u2019s why I moved\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n