Arsene Wenger has touched on some of the young players he’s bringing on the trip to Singapore, and expanded quite a bit on Jeff Reine-Adelaide.

The French youngster was signed this summer from Lens, and the Arsenal manager says although he’s an attacker now, his future might lie elsewhere.

“He’s an offensive player,” said the boss, “but he can develop into an all-round midfielder as well. At the moment he plays on the right or left but I think he can develop as a central midfielder as well.”

We all know Arsene likes his players to be versatile, but those quotes sounded quite familiar to us. So we went searching and found the boss talking in a very similar way about Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

“At the moment he is still in development,” he said of the England international. “It is good for his education to play on the left, right or centrally, but after the age of 23 or 24 he will settle into a position. He will be an Aaron Ramsey type.”

Indeed, you wonder if recent events, like the re-signing of Mikel Arteta to a one year deal, are part of the manager’s plan to give Oxlade-Chamberlain a bigger role in the season ahead, rather than signing another midfield player.

He’s still to nail down his position, of course, so we’ll have to see. In the meantime, we’ll see how the young man gets on during the tour, and if he sees any playing time.