Teenage picks: the young players lighting up the Premier League

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When Max Dowman came off the bench for Arsenal against Leeds earlier this season, he became just the third 15-year-old to play in the Premier League. Kroupi scored 23 goals for Lorient last season and he has not dropped the pace in the Premier League.Josh KingThe 18-year-old has become a vital cog in Marco Silva’s machine this season.

After more than a decade in the Fulham academy, he made his debut last December – “one of the best moments of my life” – and impressed the manager enough to become a starter this season. His manager was particularly impressed by the character he showed in Fulham’s win over local rivals Brentford earlier this season.

Speaking after Arsenal’s 3-0 win in Prague this week, he said: “The first thing he did when he came on was to take people on, dribble and get a foul. You have it or you don’t.”Dowman – born on New Year’s Eve 2009 – was training with the first team at 14 and has already broken a series of records, becoming Arsenal’s youngest starter, the Champions League’s youngest player, the Premier League’s second-youngest (after his teammate Nwaneri), and the youngest goalscorer for England Under-19s.Given his youth – he has not yet sat his GCSEs – he will not be given as many minutes as some of the players on this list.