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He’s only been in the Premier League for a matter of months, but one of Erik ten Hag’s more successful Manchester United signings is already acting as something of an inspiration for another of English football’s rising stars. The fondness the Arsenal wonderkid harbours for one Rasmus Hojlund can be explained, to some extent, by their shared backgrounds. Hojlund, the first-choice striker for the Danish national team these days, started out at Copenhagen in the capital. So too did Chidozie Obi-Martin, albeit not with FC Kobenhavn’s first-team but with with Kjobenhavns Boldklub in Denmark’s lowe…