[SPORT UPDATE] Jack Wilshere Did Not Want To Join Arsenal

Jack Wilshere has uncovered he was hesitant to join Arsenal when he got an idea from the club.

Wilshere was only nine years of age when he turned out to be a piece of the Gunners' childhood framework and turned into the most youthful to play for the club in the Premier League when he made his presentation at 16 years old.

The midfielder, who proceeded to show up for Arsenal before leaving for West Ham in 2018, was playing for Luton when he was approached to make the move.

Wilshere thought the offer was a bizarre one and was not keen on joining the north London outfit at first, yet wound up consenting to it at last.

“I was playing for Luton and we were playing against Barnet and the ref was actually scouting for Arsenal,” he told the Lockdown Tactics podcast.

“He came up to my dad afterwards and told him he wanted me to come along. He didn’t even say it was a trial. He just wanted to sign me for Arsenal.

“It was strange because there must have been some sort of transfer window where that sort of thing could happen bu, I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t want to go.

“I was 15 minutes from Luton to get to London every day. My dad with his job he would have to finish work early.

“My dad didn’t put any pressure on me but at the time. I didn’t know what to do. I remember it so clearly, I was nine and I was in the park with my mate.

“My dad pulled up in his little red van and said: ‘This is your last day you’ve got to make a decision’.

“I said to my mate: ‘F*ck it. I’m going to Arsenal’, and the rest is history. Fair play to my dad because we didn’t have much as a kid, he was a plumber.

“He used to finish work at 4pm, then we’d be out the door and it would take an hour to get to London from where I lived and that was like three times a week from when I was 10.”