Arsenal will not listen to loan offers for Joe Willock or Eddie Nketiah with kids part of Unai Emery's plans for rest of season

Gunners boss Unai Emery has already confirmed teenager Emile Smith-Rowe is going nowhere despite interest last year from RB Leipzig.


Football London report a posse of clubs from the second tier have been in touch expressing interest in duo Eddie Nketiah and Joe Willock.

Both featured in Arsenal’s comfortable FA Cup win at Blackpool on Saturday, with Willock bagging a brace.

But with Danny Welbeck crocked for the rest of the campaign, Nketiah,19, has been elevated to third choice striker behind Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette.

Willock has also been a target for League One side Sunderland to aid their promotion push back to the second tier.


The teenagers will hope potential loan stints away from the Emirates will turn out to be a positive resulting in first-team opportunities in the second half of the campaign.

Forward Bukayo Saka, 17, is also more likely to continue his development in Freddie Ljungberg’s U23s rather than on loan at another club.

Meanwhile, the Gunners are pushing to land Barcelona star Denis Suarez this month.

The midfielder is surplus to requirements at the Nou Camp but Catalan giants are insisting on a mandatory £18million option to buy the 25-year-old at the end of his potential loan stint.

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