Back in February 1997, Arsenal spent the relatively paltry sum of £500,000 on an unknown 17-year-old striker. talkSPORT recalls how this gangly youngster progressed rapidly into one of Europe's most coveted players… Jaap Stam will tell you blistering pace was definitely an asset of Nicolas Anelka's. Arsenal's teenage sensation left the Man United centre-back – one of the best defenders in football at the time – in his wake in the Gunners' 1998 Charity Shield win to score the third in a 3-0 win. It was a great start to the season for the Gunners and for the confident 19-year-old, who had helped Arsenal clinch the double two months previously with a 2-0 FA Cup final win...
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