YOUNG Arsenal striker Nacer Barazite will be hoping his loan spell at Championship Derby as team-mate Jay Simpson's similar spell at Millwall last season.

The 19-year-old Simpson returned from The New Den, named as the League One Player of the Season, and young Dutchman Barazite is hoping to make a similar impact with the Rams after agreeing to move to Pride Park this week.

“I take a lot from Jay Simpson in the fact that he went on loan, became more mature and is now getting his chances,” Barazite told Arsenal.com before the move to Derby was announced. “I feel that I can achieve that sort of thing. A loan would only make me a better player, like Jay has been since he came back. Hopefully I can make those steps as well.

“I was really disappointed not to make it on the flight to the training camp [in Austria],” he went on. “When I saw the list and I wasn’t on it, it was upsetting. But that’s football.

  “Since then I have put so much effort into training and the games, so that I can prove to the boss that I can be a success here. Hopefully he will see that I am trying to improve everything in my game, that I can play football his way and work hard for the team with or without the ball.

  “In the last few games, not just Huddersfield (where Barazite grabbed the winner) but also for the Reserves, I have been practicing my role for the whole team [working] off the ball. I have learnt to go into games with a different mental attitude. That means working hard.

"After that my football will do the talking.”