A youngster to watch at each Premier League club this season

ByMichael Emons

BBC Sport journalist

Which youngsters volition marque their people connected the 2026-27 season?

The Premier League is not acold away, with reigning champions Arsenal hosting recently promoted Coventry City connected Friday, 21 August.

We person picked 20 prospects, 1 from each Premier League club, who volition beryllium looking to people their people and bask a breakthrough season.

Who knows, immoderate of these listed could supply a existent bargain for you Fantasy Premier League managers retired there.

It feels unusual to accidental that a subordinate who has already scored a extremity successful the Premier League is astir to person a breakthrough play - but that is precisely the lawsuit for Max Dowman.

He broke the grounds to go the youngest scorer successful league past past play and made his archetypal league commencement connected the last time of past campaign, too.

The attacker is inactive lone 16 years old, and made six appearances successful the league past season, but aft being fixed a sensation of first-team enactment is acceptable to beryllium much progressive this clip around.

Dowman scored successful a pre-season affable triumph implicit Girona and going guardant is apt to beryllium a morganatic enactment for manager Mikel Arteta, some connected the helping and arsenic a fig 10.

Arteta volition inactive support the highly rated youngster, but this play could beryllium the clip we spot Dowman successful the Arsenal archetypal squad connected a regular basis.

The midfielder has been highly rated astatine Villa Park for immoderate clip and is considered the champion of their caller harvest of endowment to travel done the academy.

He made his first-team debut astatine Arsenal past play and made 4 appearances for Unai Emery overall, including 2 successful the Europa League.

A beardown commencement to pre-season, including a extremity successful the decision by Real Sociedad, underlines the 19-year-old's potential.

Centre-half Veljko Milosavljevic is already a Serbia planetary and became the youngest Bournemouth subordinate to commencement a Premier League lucifer erstwhile helium played against Brighton successful September.

Milosavljevic, who turned 19 connected 28 June, featured successful 7 Premier League games successful 2025-26, with the Cherries winning 4 and drafting one.

However, the 6ft 4in defender has not featured since January due to the fact that of a genu injury, but volition beryllium hoping to get backmost to his champion and proceed his awesome commencement astatine Vitality Stadium.

He joined the Cherries from Red Star Belgrade connected deadline time astatine the commencement of September successful 2025, for an archetypal interest of £13m.

In January, Brentford paid £8m to motion Belgian striker Kaye Furo from Club Brugge.

A 6ft 3in speedy and almighty striker, Furo had played successful the Champions League against Arsenal earlier moving to westbound London with Bees brag Keith Andrews saying: "Kaye is idiosyncratic we person tracked for a portion that we are truly excited astir bringing to the club.

"His attributes are ones I similar and consciousness we tin make wrong the situation we person created. I person nary uncertainty helium volition beryllium a large subordinate for us."

Furo played 2 FA Cup ties for Brentford earlier making his Premier League debut successful May, coming connected arsenic a precocious substitute successful a 3-0 triumph implicit West Ham, and Andrews volition beryllium hoping for a large play from the 19-year-old.

Brighton person established a estimation for uncovering breathtaking young endowment and Seagulls fans volition beryllium hoping they person done it again with the acquisition of 19-year-old Nigerian right-winger Zadok Yohanna.

The nine agreed a £21.5m woody to motion Yohanna from Swedish nine AIK Stockholm, wherever helium scored 5 goals and provided 4 assists successful 18 appearances.

Former Brighton midfielder Warren Aspinall, speaking connected the Albion Unlimited podcast, felt the club's fans had each crushed to beryllium optimistic.

"It's a small spot of a scalp due to the fact that 2 different large clubs successful England were chasing him successful Chelsea and Newcastle, truthful they got up of them which is precise good," said Aspinall.

"It mightiness beryllium the close terms and the going complaint for an up-and-coming, bully player.

"Have we got different diamond to polish up? That's what we're looking for - these unsmooth diamonds to polish up and merchantability connected for large money."

Kazakhstan striker Dastan Satpaev, 17, appears the astir apt of Chelsea's young prospects to interruption through, having received praise from caller manager Xabi Alonso.

Satpaev opened the scoring against Western Sydney Wanderers with a almighty near-post decorativeness and looks quick, almighty and susceptible of uncovering the nett regularly.

He already has Champions League acquisition and is simply a superstar successful his homeland, winning 9 caps since 2025.

There person besides been awesome cameos from midfielders Landon Emenalo, who has been converted into a left-back, Reggie Walsh, Reggie Watson and Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli.

Central midfielder Kai Andrews made his Coventry City debut aged 17 astatine the commencement of the 2023 season.

Andrews, present 19, tin besides play connected the near and featured 10 times for the Sky Blues past play earlier spending the 2nd fractional of 2025-26 connected indebtedness astatine Hibernian.

That was his 2nd spell successful the Scottish Premiership aft a indebtedness spell astatine Motherwell the run before. He scored his archetypal elder extremity successful Hibernian's 2-1 league triumph astatine Celtic successful February, and helium has already been capped 3 times by Wales.

Andrews has been backmost successful Coventry colours successful pre-season and volition beryllium hoping to unit his mode into Frank Lampard's Premier League line-ups.

Crystal Palace's palmy Conference League campaign, which ended with the Eagles winning their archetypal European trophy, provided an accidental for young players to impress.

Joel Drakes-Thomas was 1 of those to radiance as, aged 16 years and 192 days, helium made his elder debut successful the 2-2 gully with Finnish broadside KuPS, producing a player-of-the-match performance.

He played against Leeds 2 days aft the KuPS match, becoming the youngest subordinate to crook retired for the nine successful the Premier League.

Drakes-Thomas, who tin play arsenic a close wing-back oregon connected the wing, turned 17 successful June and signed his archetypal nonrecreational declaration with the Eagles astatine the opening of July aft being with the nine since the property of six.

He has already made 4 elder appearances and volition beryllium hoping for galore much successful 2026-27.

Central midfielder Harrison Armstrong has been with Everton since the property of 5 and established himself arsenic a cardinal subordinate of the archetypal squad successful the 2nd fractional of past season.

He made his Toffees Premier League debut aboriginal successful the 2024-25 run and has present played 16 times successful the apical formation arsenic good arsenic having half-season loans successful the Championship, firstly with Derby County and past Preston North End.

His performances led to him being named Everton's young subordinate of the play and helium has regularly featured for England Under-19s. The 19-year-old tin play either arsenic a antiaircraft midfielder oregon successful a much precocious role.

"He's not looked retired of spot successful the Premier League. That's the biggest compliment I could springiness Harrison," said Everton brag David Moyes successful January.

It promises to beryllium a large play for breathtaking guardant Jonah Kusi-Asare aft helium completed a £5m imperishable determination to Fulham successful the summer

The Swede, who turned 19 successful July, joined connected a five-year woody with an enactment for a further 12 months aft helium had played 10 times for the Cottagers portion connected indebtedness from Bayern Munich past season.

Kusi-Asare is 6ft 5in and has represented Sweden astatine under-17, under-19 and under-21 level.

He made 7 substitute appearances successful the Premier League past season. However, with past season's apical scorer for Fulham, Raul Jimenez, moving to Wolves successful the summer, expect Kusi-Asare to play a larger relation this term.

Eighteen-year-old Nigerian defender Calvin Okike is tipped for a agleam aboriginal astatine Hull City and signed his archetypal nonrecreational declaration successful the summer, a two-year woody with the enactment of a third.

He mostly featured for the under-21s past season, but was an unused substitute successful a 2-0 triumph implicit Norwich City successful the Championship.

Okike had a indebtedness spell astatine National League nine Hartlepool United this year, scoring wrong a infinitesimal connected his elder debut. Although expected to enactment mostly with the under-21s successful 2026-27, helium has featured successful Hull City's affable victories implicit Turkish sides Konyaspor and Caykur Rizespor, 3-0 and 2-1 respectively.

Okike won the academy subordinate of the twelvemonth grant successful 2025-26 and volition beryllium looking to propulsion connected into the archetypal squad this campaign.

Nineteen-year-old striker Luca Fletcher joined Ipswich Town connected a imperishable woody successful the summertime aft a palmy indebtedness spell from Manchester City.

While astatine City, accelerated guardant Fletcher, an England Under-17s international, helped the nine scope the FA Youth Cup last successful 2024 and 2025 earlier impressing astatine Ipswich, scoring six times successful the Premier League 2.

He is yet to play a elder game, but has been grooming with Ipswich's archetypal team, with caller brag Gary O'Neil saying helium has been impressed by the youngster.

Town's attacking options look constricted with unproven Brazilian striker Emersonn, 22, joining for £24m, and Japan's Daizen Maeda besides signing successful an £8m determination from Celtic.

In the Championship, the centre-forward duties were shared betwixt George Hurst and on-loan Spaniard Ivan Azon.

However, Hirst, an unused subordinate of Scotland's World Cup squad, lone scored 11 league goals, portion Azon lone got 5 and has returned to genitor nine Como.

When 19-year-old midfielder Alfie Cresswell makes his elder debut for Leeds, helium volition beryllium the 3rd subordinate of his household to bash so.

His dada Richard was a striker for the Whites from 2005 to 2007 and older member Charlie, a defender who has represented the England Under-21s, came done the ranks astatine Elland Road and made 14 elder appearances earlier a £3.8m determination to French broadside Toulouse successful 2024.

Alfie Cresswell is the skipper of the under-21s, featuring successful the Vertu Trophy past season, and was an unused substitute successful Leeds' past 2 Premier League matches of 2025-26.

But a archetypal elder Leeds commencement is not excessively acold away, arsenic helium was included successful their squad for the circuit of the United States, playing successful the 3-2 affable nonaccomplishment to Wrexham successful Florida and the 1-0 triumph implicit Sunderland successful New Jersey.

Given past play was Rio Ngumoha's breakthrough twelvemonth and the 17-year-old is expected to play a overmuch much salient relation this season, the absorption indispensable spell connected Trey Nyoni, who has been 1 of the standouts of Liverpool's pre-season.

Nyoni, 19, was considered 1 of the players who could play successful the archetypal squad nether Arne Slot but was not fixed the accidental helium desired.

"Even erstwhile helium [Trey] has 1 hostile rather close, helium asks for that shot and he's confident, helium doesn't rush. For me, that is precise valuable," caller Reds manager Andoni Iraola said.

With that successful mind, the chances of the midfielder getting much crippled clip this play person decidedly increased.

Winger Ryan McAidoo, 18, scored connected his first-team debut successful the FA Cup past season, 1 of 2 appearances successful the competition, and helium whitethorn thrive successful Enzo Maresca's strategy if fixed the opportunity.

McAidoo was a existent livewire successful the affable against Inter Milan, coming adjacent to scoring the winner, and the manager was suitably impressed afterwards saying the youngster is the benignant of winger helium "loves".

The Italian volition beryllium watching his improvement intimately successful pre-season earlier making a determination whether to support him with the archetypal squad oregon assistance a indebtedness determination distant to assistance his development.

Notable mentions spell to midfielders Divine Mukasa, 18, and Floyd Samba, 17.

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Shea Lacey was connected the fringes of the archetypal squad towards the extremity of Ruben Amorim's clip astatine Manchester United, sparkled instantly aft the Portuguese's dismissal astatine Burnley, past got sent disconnected successful the FA Cup against Brighton.

Although it was the last crippled of the play - besides against Brighton - earlier helium played elder shot again, helium did people a hat-trick connected Premier League 2 duty. This pre-season helium has been 1 of United's champion players.

He was outstanding against Atletico Madrid successful Stockholm, winning the punishment Bryan Mbeumo scored to level and putting Atletico's defence connected the backmost foot. Best astatine starting connected the close and cutting in, expect to spot a batch of him being introduced from the bench.

Sam Alabi lone signed his archetypal nonrecreational declaration successful July, but the 17-year-old has his sights acceptable connected a elder debut for Newcastle this season.

The dynamic midfielder was named connected the seat connected a fistful of occasions successful the erstwhile run aft fearlessly holding his ain successful grooming with the archetypal team.

Alabi went connected to endure a season-ending shin wounded successful January, but erstwhile caput manager Eddie Howe backed the teen to person a agleam aboriginal if helium continued to enactment hard.

Although Newcastle person since spent £57m connected a mates of young midfielders successful Sean Steur and Aladji Bamba, Alabi is 1 to ticker arsenic idiosyncratic who has already captained England astatine younker level.

Honourable notation for Mason Miley (17, defender oregon midfielder).

Midfielder Azae Bonnick is simply a rising prima successful Forest's academy and scored 39 goals and provided 14 assists, playing up an property radical for the under-16s past season.

He has besides earned a call-up to the England Under-15s.

Bonnick made his under-18s debut for Forest against Sunderland successful March, conscionable a week aft turning 15.

Although lone 19, English midfielder Chris Rigg is closing successful connected 100 appearances for the Sunderland archetypal team.

He played an integral portion successful helping the Black Cats get into the Premier League with 42 league appearances successful 2024-25, including starting the Play-Off last triumph implicit Sheffield United astatine Wembley.

Rigg, who tin run arsenic a antiaircraft oregon attacking cardinal midfielder, past made the step-up impressively, starting 11 Premier League matches, with a further 7 appearances from the bench.

Already a regular for England Under-19s, Rigg volition expect to play a captious relation for his nine this season, particularly with Sunderland having much games arsenic they volition beryllium playing successful the Europa League - their archetypal large European run since the 1970s.

Attacker Luca Williams-Barnett, 17, has been described by Spurs manager Roberto de Zerbi arsenic a "precious diamond" - and it is casual to spot why.

Quick, skilful and ever looking to get a changeable away, the guardant is playing arsenic though helium wants to interruption into the archetypal squad immediately.

The item was arguably his determination to instrumentality a Panenka punishment successful the 4-2 shootout triumph implicit Sydney FC past week.

He has impressed successful each 4 of Spurs' friendlies truthful far. Centre-back Malachi Hardy, 18, is different youngster who has earned praise from De Zerbi and excelled successful the 2-1 triumph implicit Chelsea.