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Arsenal’s Unai Emery raids PSG to sign teenage prospect Yacine Adli
• New manager takes midfielder from his former club
• Adli, 17, made first-team debut on final day of season
• Adli, 17, made first-team debut on final day of season
Arsenal have signed the 17-year-old midfield prospect Yacine Adli from Paris St-Germain. They have secured him to an initial three-year contract, although it contains options, after he rejected the offer of professional terms at PSG – much to the French club’s dismay.
Unai Emery, the new Arsenal manager, has helped to get the deal over the line. Emery left PSG at the end of this past season and one of his final acts was to give Adli his first-team debut. He brought him on as an 83rd-minute substitute in the last game against Caen. Emery, together with Arsenal’s head of recruitment, Sven Mislintat, has convinced Adli that his development will be best served at Arsenal.
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