Abel Ferreira hesitated for a second, insisted he wouldn’t say what he had in his mind, but then – in a rare moment of full disclosure when it comes to young talents – he opened up. “This player is different from everything I’ve ever seen,” the Palmeiras coach said in a press conference in May...
A debut under legendary manager Arsene Wenger, a Europa League final start under Unai Emery in 2019, winning the FA Cup with Mikel Arteta in 2020 and winning five England caps all rank among the major landmarks in Maitland-Niles’ journey. “I’m still an Arsenal fan, I watch most of our games and I lived a...