Thomas Tuchel fires warning to England wonderkids with example of Arsenal starlet

Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha have already caught the eye with their performances in the Premier League this season but England boss Thomas Tuchel has a word of warning

English wonderkids Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha have been warned about the dangers of “burn out.” Three Lions boss Thomas Tuchel was glowing about the teenage talents as both of them have taken the Premier League by storm this season.

Arsenal starlet Dowman made his senior debut aged 15 years and 234 days while Liverpool whizz kid Ngumoha – who turned 17 on Friday – scored the dramatic late winner at Newcastle on Monday.

Tuchel said the sky is the limit for both of them but also warned about the responsibilities on England and English football to handle them with care, using Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly as the perfect example of how to treat young players.

Tuchel said: “We need to be careful and hopefully everyone does everything with a parental view to protect them, and to not burn them in all this excitement.

“The strength at the moment is that they just do, that they’re living their dreams, that they don’t think so much, and hopefully they can keep this going and we need to make sure that we don’t put the pressure up if at some point comes a moment when it gets a little bit more difficult.

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“I’m hugely impressed when I think what I did with 15, 16, they play for the best teams in the country, in Europe and the world, full stadiums in the most competitive league, it’s just an outstanding achievement already.

“But think about what I already tried to explain you when I called Myles up, Myles Lewis-Skelly, we had long, long discussion, and it was almost in a parental atmosphere, like can we really do this, do we accelerate this career onto international level, is this not too much for him. a

“And basically right now we see that it is not so easy to keep the momentum going for Myles at the moment, which is totally understandable. But I have feedback that he trains well, that’s in a good headspace, so everything is OK, he still gets not the minutes because the competition, and someone else is ahead of him now at Arsenal.

“But when we thought about it, in my opinion, the responsibility to take him again but we actually were a part of his acceleration. We did it. I was so happy when we did it, because he was so good, he was so open, this nice boy, such a big personality already, he fitted in seamlessly.

“But now I think it comes with a responsibility from us to not drop him on the first occasion, just because he does not start, so it is a fine line, and now there are two guys who are even younger than him.”

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