'I want to go on loan' - Kido Taylor-Hart eyeing Arsenal move after four month injury layoff

He was out of action for four long months, but Kido Taylor-Hart's spell on the sidelines would ultimately end up finishing earlier than even he expected.

After signing his first professional contract with the club he had been at since the age of seven, the 19-year-old set about becoming an integral part of Kevin Betsy's Arsenal under-23 side. With two goals in a North London Derby win over Tottenham it seemed there would be little that could stop the winger's rapid ascension before injury cruelly struck.

His time out was finally scheduled to come to an end as the Gunners travelled up to Old Trafford to play Manchester United under-23s in their penultimate Premier League 2 game of the season. Taylor-Hart was only set make a brief cameo off the bench until he received word of a late change in plans.

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"I actually only found out I was going to be starting about two hours before," he tells in an exclusive interview. "One of the wing backs, Reuell Walters got ill, and so they just told me I was starting. I thought I was going to be on the bench and maybe get 20 minutes but then I was starting!"

The Hale Ender wasted no time getting back to reminding people exactly why Arsenal had been so keen to tie him down to professional deal the summer prior amid interest from various clubs across England and Europe. Playing right wing up against United left back Alvaro Fernandez - who made the first team bench for the Red Devil's 3-0 win over Brentford - Taylor-Hart pulled away easily with a stepover and quick dribble before firing a low shot that could only be parried into the path of Gunners forward Mika Biereth.

Frustratingly he was only