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Max Dowman, 16, has been honored with three Guinness World Records for his performance as a young player at Arsenal. He became the youngest Premier League champion and goalscorer, and the youngest Champions League player. Despite his youth, he also scored twice in Arsenal’s recent Carabao Cup match against Ipswich. The club is considering loaning him out after he turns 17 on December 31, but manager Mikel Arteta emphasizes that decisions will be based on what is best for Dowman's development and the team's needs.
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Max Dowman, an Arsenal wonderkid, was honored with three prestigious Guinness World Records for his impressive debut season. He became the youngest-ever Premier League champion at 16 years and 144 days, the youngest goalscorer at 16 years and 73 days, and the youngest player to appear in the Champions League at 15 years and 308 days, breaking Youssoufa Moukoko's record. Dowman first made his mark playing half an hour off the bench against Leeds and then starting against Brighton in the Carabao Cup, scoring his first senior goal in March against Everton. By season’s end, he had six Premier League appearances and was part of Arsenal's Champions League final squad, earning a winner's medal. His early success has prompted speculation that he could be loaned out as soon as January.
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The youngster cracked Mikel Arteta’s first-team early in the campaign, playing half an hour off the bench in the August defeat of Leeds before starting against Brighton in the Carabao Cup eight weeks later.
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His first senior goal came in March, as he scored an impressive solo effort on the break at home to Everton.
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In November, before his 16th birthday, he appeared in the Champions League defeat of Slavia Prague.
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He finished the campaign with six Premier League appearances, more than enough to earn him a winner’s medal, and he was later named in the matchday squad for the Champions League final.
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And Dowman has now been recognised for his staggering first campaign in senior football with a trio of Guinness World Records.
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He has been named the youngest-ever Premier League champion (16 years and 144 days) and goalscorer (16yrs 73d), and the youngest player ever to grace the Champions League (15yrs 308d).
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In becoming the youngest-ever Champions League player, he breaks the previous record held by Borussia Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko by just 75 days.
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Dowman has also made a smart start to this campaign, hitting a brace as the Gunners dispatched Ipswich 4-2 in the Carabao Cup.
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Despite his meagre years, Dowman continues to impress at every level of the game and could be sent out on loan as early as January.
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He will be eligible to do so when he turns 17 on December 31 and a number of clubs are said to have contacted Arsenal to express interest in taking him on.
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The Gunners are not thought to have any immediate plans to send him out, though.
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"We will evaluate every six months where we are and what is the best thing for him to do and then make the right decision," Arteta said of Dowman last month.
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"It depends on a lot of factors.
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What he needs, and what the team needs as well, the availability we have in the squad, the minutes that he is playing and the qualities of those minutes.
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We have to be open, but now the focus is to be here and to impact the team."
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