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itemprop="description" class="caption"> Gnabry in action for Germany against San Marino <span class="copyright">Bongarts/Getty Images</span> </figcaption> </figure> <div class="article-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="main-content-column"> <div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161117131935/http://www.standard.co.uk/topic/serge-gnabry">Serge Gnabry</a> has credited his time working with “top players” at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161117131935/http://www.standard.co.uk/topic/arsenal">Arsenal</a> for making him the player he is today.</p> <p>Gnabry left the Gunners this summer to sign for Werder Bremen after finishing as joint-top scorer at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161117131935/http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/selling-serge-gnabry-was-an-awful-decision-arsenal-fans-react-as-former-gunner-hits-germany-debut-a3393891.html">starred on his first senior international call-up for Germany with a debut hat-trick in the world champions’ 8-0 win against San Marino</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161117131935/http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-bite-back-after-werder-bremen-mock-gunners-over-serge-gnabry-germany-hattrick-a3393966.html">Bremen took to Twitter following Gnabry’s treble to poke fun at Arsenal</a> for letting the 21-year-old go, but the midfielder says he owes Arsene Wenger and the north London club a debt of gratitude.</p> <p>"Without being in England, I would not be the player I am now," he told RND radio. "There was Arsenal's quick playing style, for example, which I learned.</p> <div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-right" data-nid="/sport/football/arsenal-bite-back-after-werder-bremen-mock-gunners-over-serge-gnabry-germany-hattrick-a3393966.html"><a href="/web/20161117131935/http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-bite-back-after-werder-bremen-mock-gunners-over-serge-gnabry-germany-hattrick-a3393966.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161117131935im_/https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/readmore_card/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/12/10/sergegnabry1211.jpg"/><div class="capsules"> <ul><li> <div class="label context-capsule">Read more</div> </li> </ul></div> <div class="content"> <h2>Arsenal bite back after Werder Bremen mock Gunners over Gnabry treble</h2> </div> </a></div> <p>"When you are a young player and you get to train with such top players as there are at Arsenal for three years then of course you take something away with you and it improves you.</p> <p>"That was definitely the case with me. I probably would not be here now if I had not been in England."</p> <p>Gnabry is Bremen’s top Bundesliga scorer with four goals so far this season, but the youngster believed his international call-up from Joachim Low was a practical joke at first.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-gallery"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><!-- scald=5364376:sdl_editor_representation --><div class="image"><script> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- jQuery(document).ready(function(){ if (jQuery(window).width() > 620){ var galleryTitle = jQuery(".container.grid-mod-gallery .gallery-title"); var galleryTitleText = galleryTitle.text(); var galleryTitleLength = galleryTitleText.length; if(galleryTitleLength > 50) { galleryTitle.css("font-size","17px"); } if(galleryTitleLength > 60) { galleryTitle.css({ "padding":"12px 20px", "line-height":"22px" }); } } }); //--><!]]> </script><div class="container grid-mod-gallery" data-scald-gallery="5364376"> <!-- Gallery title --> <h2 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