Chuba Akpom is thrilled with his chance on tour with Arsenal this month.

The 17-year-old striker has excelled during the three friendlies so far, scoring against the Indonesia Dream Team on his first-ever outing for the first team, then grabbing two more against Vietnam three days later.

"It's been great, I've never experienced anything like this before," Akpom told arsenal.com.

"We all mix as a squad. Everyone is really nice to us younger players. They are really funny actually, especially Lukas [Podolski], he likes to bring everyone together and there is a lot of banter.

"Everyone mixes together, and the first-team players and youth players are all mixed at the signing sessions and other events anyway. That makes the football easier because you are already familiar with the first-team players when you go into the games, so there are no nerves."