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BIOGRAPHY

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Serge Gnabry

2019

Bundesliga

2019

DFB

Pokal

2017

Euro

Under-21s

for future German stars, including
Gnabry, Kimmich, Thomas Muller, Manuel
Neuer, Toni Kroos, Michael Ballack and
Mats Hummels.
“In our year group, Serge was always
the best player,” says Kimmich, now one
of the best right-backs or controlling
midfielders in Europe. “I’ve rarely seen
a player who is so single-minded when
going for goal. We’re different in some
ways, but the most important thing is that
we laugh together and know we can rely
on one another. Even when things aren’t
going right”
Their partnership would temporarily
be broken in 2011 when the 15-year-old
Serge quit VfB for Arsenal. Some might
say, Gnabry was a touch too quick to fly
the nest, but he insists it was too good
an opportunity to turn down.
“Who knows where I would be
now if I’d stayed with VfB,” he told the
Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper last year.
“It was not an easy decision. I did have
a few concerns, but on the whole I’m
someone who likes to take risks.”
It might not have worked out for him
at Arsenal, but what matters is where
he sits now and that is on the top table.
Champions have no use for regrets.

free

STUTTGART

TO ARSENAL

(2011)

€5m

ARSENAL TO

WERDER BREMEN

(2016)

€8m

WERDER BREMEN

TO BAYERN

MUNICH (2017)

Years/Days

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14

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27

11

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BAYERN MUNICH

GAMES GOALS 

Pals...with club and country team-mate Joshua Kimmich

HONOURS

TRANSFER FEES

ARSENAL’S YOUNGEST PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS

ARSENAL WEST BROM WERDER BREMEN HOFFENHEIM

(as of 1 4.01.20)

CAPS

GOALS

GERMANY

2014

AINSLEY

MAITLAND-NILES

17 105

2012

SERGE GNABRY

17 98

2008

JACK WILSHERE

16 256

2004

CESC FABREGAS

17 103

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