""I'm not surprised. I thought of taking him when he was only 16 with the U21s. That didn't go down too well at the time because he hadn't played with the U17s, the U18s, the U19s. But when you see someone who has that raw talent and desire, age doesn't matter.""
""He has been proving that he's a great goalscorer, very Jermain Defoe-like when he's in the box. He can play on the right, on the left. He has an eye for a goal and he has a good future.""
Eli Junior Kroupi, a Bournemouth teenager, is the top scoring teenager in the Premier League with 12 goals in the 2025-26 season. Thierry Henry, who knows Kroupi well, expressed his admiration for the player's raw talent and goal-scoring ability. Henry considered calling up Kroupi for France's Under-21s when he was just 16, emphasizing that age should not limit recognition of talent. Kroupi is attracting interest from Barcelona and other top Premier League clubs for a potential summer move.
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