Max Dowman is set to sign scholarship terms for Arsenal and, as he graduates through the club’s wage structure, the 15-year-old has an extraordinarily lucrative future ahead of him.

The playmaker is the latest starlet produced by the academy at Hale End, whose alumni in recent years include Bukayo Saka, Ethan Nwaneri, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Eberechi Eze. And that’s just the contingent currently involved with the Arsenal first team.

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Given his connection with the club having been born into a family of Gooners, Arsenal fans hope that Max Dowman can affect the first team long-term rather than being moved on for profit.

But either way, the news that he has agreed scholarship terms will be welcomed on the terraces and by those in charge of setting the playing budget at the Emirates alike.

As relayed by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Dowman has rejected overtures from rivals in order to stay in North London, where he will now progress from the schoolboy terms he has been on so...