Jack Wilshere may have spent the majority of this season out injured, but the extent of the Arsenal midfielder’s influence on the club’s younger players has now been revealed by Alex Iwobi.
Wilshere made his first appearance for Arsenal’s senior side in 330 days on Sunday after coming on for the last eight minutes of the Gunners’ goalless away draw to Sunderland.
The 24-year-old has spent this campaign recovering from surgery on a fractured left tibia, but admitted after the game at the Stadium of Light that he is now aiming to go to the European Championships in France with England following his return to fitness.
With Wilshere having been a mainstay in Arsenal’s first-team for many years now, Iwobi – who has broken into the Gunners’ senior side this term – has admitted the club’s younger players look up to the midfielder, and even practise his ‘no-touch turn’ during training.
“He’s brilliant on the ball, he’s able to find space and he’s the master of the no-touch turn,” Iwobi told the Arsenal matchday programme.
“He doesn’t even need to touch the ball, he just shields it with his body and turns away from defenders with ease. It’s something that us youth team players used to watch and then try in training.
“He’s a big inspiration for us. A couple of times in training we used to get together and practise the ‘Jack Wilshere turn’, but nobody can do it as well as he can!”
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