REISS NELSON

We would go to the football pitch near my estate and play until it was dark.

Alex Iwobi has told me to stay grounded. I've got a really good family that helps me as well.

You can't beat playing for your country I don't think.

When Thierry Henry was U19 coach at Arsenal he gave me a lot of advice. His main thing was staying grounded.

For me, I always want to be the best player I can be.

For me, it's just about playing - getting the game time you need to prove to everyone you can play at that high level.

You can have a bad pass or a bad shot, but you need to do this to take the risk.

Street football is very important.

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

Mesut's been talking to me and really helping me through the games.

Alex Iwobi has really helped me.

I just look ahead to the next match. I just want to keep going and not look too far ahead.

You need to shoot to score the goal. If it goes wide, you just need to keep going and keep your head up.

Arsenal is my main goal.

I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.

Once you're a young player and you're getting an opportunity to play, I think if you're good enough, it just gives you the confidence to go on.

I'm liking the Bundesliga. There's a lot of top, top defenders that you come across.

My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.

Whenever I think it's getting a bit much I'll go to my family and they will sit me down and bring me back to earth.

I was 17 when Arsene Wenger gave me my first Premier League start for Arsenal against Southampton and I was very immature when I was playing.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

Arsenal are my boyhood club.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

I want to be an Arsenal legend.

I learned so much stuff at Hoffenheim and made a lot of friends. I also made good connections with the managers. They taught me a lot that I can take on in my career.