Arsenal and England midfielder Myles Lewis-Skelly has been included within the 25-man shortlist for this 12 months’s Golden Boy award.
The 20-year-old is certainly one of eight Premier League gamers in rivalry for the prize, offered by Italian publication Tuttosport, which is awarded to the perfect U21 males’s participant in Europe.
Bournemouth and Brighton each have two gamers among the many finalists, making up half of the Premier League contingent. Eli Junior Kroupi and Rayan are in rivalry for Bournemouth, whereas Brighton have Luka Vuskovic and Charalampos Kostoulas.
Chelsea even have two shortlisted gamers in Estevao Willian and Jorrel Hato, whereas Manchester Metropolis’s summer-signing Ayyoub Bouaddi is the opposite Premier League star on the listing.
Lamine Yamal, the odds-on favorite for this 12 months’s Ballon d’Or, is dominated out as a result of he has already received the award.
Nonetheless, his Spain and Barcelona team-mate, Pau Cubarsi, named greatest younger participant on the summer time’s World Cup, is among the many strongest contenders.
Barcelona have three gamers shortlisted, greater than another membership, with Marc Bernal and Xavi Espart additionally included.
Actual Madrid have two gamers within the combine with Yan Diomande and Endrick, whereas Paris Saint-Germain’s Warren Zaire-Emery and Bayern Munich’s Lennart Karl additionally make the minimize.
Golden Boy 2026… meet the 25 finalists
Kerim Alajbegović (Juventus)
Marc Bernal (Barcelona)
Ayyoub Bouaddi (Manchester Metropolis)
Man Metropolis signed Ayyoub Bouaddi for a file payment for a young person within the Premier League this summer time
Pau Cubarsà (Barcelona)
Yan Diomande (Actual Madrid)
Endrick (Actual Madrid)
Xavi Espart (Barcelona)
Estêvão (Chelsea)
Victor Froholdt (Porto)
Joane Gadou (Borussia Dortmund)
Jorrel Hato (Chelsea)
Finn Jeltsch (Stuttgart)
Lennart Karl (Bayern Munich)
Charalampos Kostoulas has hit goalscoring kind for Brighton this season
Konstantinos Karetsas (Borussia Dortmund)
Charalampos Kostoulas (Brighton)
Eli Junior Kroupi (Bournemouth)
Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal)
Saïd El Mala (Köln)
Jon Martin (Actual Sociedad)
Franco Mastantuono (Fiorentina, on mortgage from Actual Madrid)
Rodrigo Mora (Roma)
Bournemouth’s Rayan has been a revelation since he was signed in January
Gianluca Prestianni (Benfica)
Rayan (Bournemouth)
Luka Vuskovic (Brighton)
Each previous Golden Boy winner
2003: Rafael van der Vaart
2004: Wayne Rooney
2005: Lionel Messi
2006: Cesc FÃ bregas
2007: Sergio Agüero
2008: Anderson
2009: Alexandre Pato
2010: Mario Balotelli
2011: Mario Götze
2012: Isco
2013: Paul Pogba
2014: Raheem Sterling
2015: Anthony Martial
2016: Renato Sanches
2017: Kylian Mbappé
2018: Matthijs de Ligt
2019: João Félix
2020: Erling Haaland
2021: Pedri
2022: Gavi
2023: Jude Bellingham
2024: Lamine Yamal
2025: Désiré Doué