{"id":20543,"date":"2025-04-15T00:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20543\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:09:24","slug":"arsenal-starlet-set-to-leave-this-summer-in-search-of-first-team-football-after-a-decade-in-the-clubs-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20543\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal starlet set to leave this summer in search of first-team football after a decade in the club&#8217;s academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Elian Quesada-Thorn has had regular call-ups to train with Arsenal&#8217;s first team<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>But he is keen on a move with Myles Lewis-Skelly above him in the pecking order<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymail.lnk.to\/its-all-kicking-offDM\">LISTEN NOW: It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/a> Is it fair for Man United or Tottenham to go straight into the Champions League if they win the Europa League?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-189\/kieran-gill.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KIERAN GILL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  08:39 EDT, 14 April 2025   |  Updated:  08:39 EDT, 14 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/arsenal\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1280ed20-192c-11f0-9740-275891fae3bf\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> youth talent Elian Quesada-Thorn is attracting interest with the 20-year-old left back set to leave the club this summer after a decade spent in their academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Hale End youngster previously signed two professional contracts with the Gunners in 2023 and 2024 and was regularly rewarded with call-ups to train with <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mikel-arteta\/index.html\" id=\"mol-128559f0-192c-11f0-9740-275891fae3bf\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikel Arteta<\/a>\u2019s first team after impressing with their development sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, his progress was hampered by a lengthy back injury which prevented him from ever managing a senior appearance, unlike his fellow academy left back Myles Lewis-Skelly who has seized his opportunity brilliantly and made that position his own.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9543396139695d44\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97259319-14607451-image-a-82_1744634093945.jpg\" height=\"483\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Elian Quesada-Thorn is ready for regular game time after finally overcoming a back injury\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Elian Quesada-Thorn is ready for regular game time after finally overcoming a back injury<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3f6752ba1cc0ef95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97259337-14607451-image-m-84_1744634143043.jpg\" height=\"484\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The 20-year-old left back is\u00a0weighing up his options for where to next challenge himself next\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The 20-year-old left back is\u00a0weighing up his options for where to next challenge himself next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But it is understood Quesada-Thorn is now ready for regular game time after finally overcoming the issue which had troubled him for around 18 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Given the chance of senior football is unlikely to come at Arsenal with those ahead of him, he is currently weighing up his options for where to next challenge himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Though born and raised in London, and having been on Arsenal\u2019s books for half his life, he has represented Costa Rica at youth level thanks to his heritage. He is also eligible for Sweden and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Arsenal starlet set to leave this summer in search of first-team football after a decade in the club&#8217;s academy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elian Quesada-Thorn has had regular call-ups to train with Arsenal&#8217;s first team But he is keen on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,92,94,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-20543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114339077809880962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}