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Ex-Arsenal chief Jonker worries for Fosu-Mensah over Fulham problems

Former Arsenal youth chief Andrie Jonker has questioned Holland's youth players push to move to England.

Jonker raised the trouble Manchester United defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah is experiencing this season on-loan at Fulham.

"I keep my reservations about whether this is the right step. Play a hundred games in the Eredivisie first, I often think. Besides Tim Krul and Nathan Aké, no player has succeeded in enforcing a basic place in the Premier League from the youth.

"Timothy Fosu Mensah? He now also has a hard time with Fulham.

"When I worked at Arsenal, manager Arsène Wenger sometimes called youth players for matches in the League Cup. But when Arsenal came into action a few days later for the Premier League, those guys were not in the selection. And for fifty games afterwards also not. It does say something that boys like (Ki-Jana) Hoever and (Tahith) Chong are among the greatest talents of their club. That is of course positive."

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