If many Arsenal supporters had their way Alex Iwobi would be nowhere near the first-team right now. Instead he'd be playing with the Under-21s while Isco, Ilkay Gundogan and Andriy Yarmolenko competed for the first-team spot Iwobi has recently made his own.

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It's impossible to say whether in this parallel universe Arsenal would be doing better than they are now, but what we can say with certainty is that the rise of Iwobi has been the most exciting thing to have happened to Arsene Wenger's team this season.