Top 10 young players in Premier League 2023/2024: Best Under 21 talents in EPL this season
While many of the best players in the Premier League are in the prime of their careers, there are hugely talented younger players who have burst onto the scene and assumed starring roles.
Teams like Arsenal and Manchester City are loaded with players 21 years old and younger who are contributing meaningful minutes already.
Gunners winger Bukayo Saka won last year's PFA Young Player of the Year award, given to the best Under-21 player of the Premier League season, and he looks primed to be a leading candidate for the award again, though others have emerged to challenge for the award.
The Premier League has not seen one of its players win the prestigious Golden Boy award (overseen by Italian sports publication Tuttosport) since Anthony Martial in 2015, the year he joined Manchester United. Could the Premier League produce a candidate this year?
The Sporting News brings you a list of the 10 best young players in the Premier League for the 2023/24 season, as well as those who just missed out.
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Just 18 years old and with plenty of developing still to do, Rico Lewis may be the heir apparent to Kyle Walker's full-back spot at Manchester City. A former captain of the club's Under-18 team, Lewis has the maturity to play at a first-team level,
Lewis is similar to Trent Alexander-Arnold in that he can play at full-back, but often drifts into midfield in possession. He can beat opponents on the dribble out wide, and capably finds a pass or cross to create attacking chances. He'll get more minutes in the next two years, and if he doesn't, other clubs will surely come calling.
Another Manchester City youth product, 21-year-old Cole Palmer has seen sporadic minutes in Pep Guardiola's
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