The 18-year-old winger is following a similar path to that of England youth international Jadon Sancho by heading to the Bundesliga <\/p>\n
Arsenal starlet Reiss Nelson is expected to join Hoffenheim on a season-long loan deal,\u00a0Goal understands.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old is out of contract next summer but is set to sign\u00a0a new deal with Unai Emery’s side ahead of his temporary move to Germany.<\/p>\n
With the likes of Alex Iwobi and Danny Welbeck\u00a0favoured above Nelson in the pecking order at Emirates Stadium, he has\u00a0made the decision to move\u00a0in an attempt to secure regular first-team football.<\/p>\n
And he will follow\u00a0his compatriot\u00a0Jadon Sancho, who joined Borussia Dortmund last year after leaving Manchester City and is quickly becoming one of the top young players in Germany’s top flight.<\/p>\n
Nelson was awarded the Premier League 2 Player of the Year award last season following his 10 goals which saw Arsenal win the league at that level.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n The England youth international had appeared all set to agree new contract\u00a0with the Gunners having initially signed professional terms with the club in December 2016.<\/p>\n Speaking of his hope to sign a new deal, he said in April 2017:\u00a0“It is a big achievement to sign for a big club like\u00a0Arsenal\u00a0so I\u2019m just delighted with the contract and hopeful can sign it soon.<\/p>\n “I did set one target \u2013 to make my first-team debut. I have done that, I have had 15 appearances.<\/p>\n “A Premier League start was on the cards but I think I need to score, that is the only one I haven\u2019t achieved, so fingers crossed I can get a cheeky goal before the end of the season.”<\/p>\n Highly-rated Nelson made his Premier league debut against Crystal Palace in January and made a total of 16 appearances in all competitions last season.<\/p>\n Emery gave the 18-year-old\u00a0opportunities\u00a0in pre-season, with Nelson scoring in Arsenal’s\u00a0final friendly –\u00a0a 2-0 victory over Lazio –\u00a0before their Premier League campaign got under way.<\/p>\n He has, however, failed to make the squad for any of the club’s opening three games of the season and is seemingly not part of Emery’s plans for the coming season.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 18-year-old winger is following a similar path to that of England youth international Jadon Sancho by heading to the Bundesliga Arsenal starlet Reiss Nelson is expected to join Hoffenheim on a season-long loan deal,\u00a0Goal understands. The 18-year-old is out of contract next summer but is set to sign\u00a0a new deal with Unai Emery’s side…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n