Who Is Tobi Omole? The Nigerian Defender Involved In Arsenal First Team Training Ahead Of Brighton Match

Aged just 19, the versatile player has made a continuous career progress through the club's Hale End and is been touted to break into the senior team anytime soon, if recent developments are anything to go by.

Yesterday, he was part of the Gunners first-team work out as they prepare to take on Brighton in a Premier League encounter today, with Ljunberg observing him at close quarters.

However, Omole is no new player to the Swede, with the 42-year-old having worked with him in the club's U-23s section and is supposedly looking to fast track his involvement with the senior side.

He has been described as a very technically strong player, who is difficult to get past by opponents, sound in aerial duels and can catch out unsuspecting opposition with his pace on the break.

In 2014, he was spotted playing as a box-to-box midfielder by Arsenal scouts in the streets of Thamesmead in the south-eastern part of London from where he was brought to join up with his mates at Hale End.


It is not a certain that Omole will make his senior debut this evening versus Brighton, but with the games beginning to come thick and thin this festive season, Ljungberg might be pushed to hand him some playing time with the team anytime soon.