I don’t think anyone is gonna pay why Brentford are starting off and it seems like an obvious negotiation tactic to start high and raise the lowest possible value.
40/50 is where I’d be fine with
Honestly we need superstar quality in attack. A player who can either score 40+ goals or someone who has game breaking qualities like an mbappe.
We need to add that quality at striker or at the 8 position to get to that next level
We don’t need someone to score 40+ goals, that’s not how Mikel wants his teams playing. For the life of I don’t understand how some of you can watch Arsenal so much and seemingly understand so little about the way the manager wants our team to play. Last year our leading goalscorer in the Prem were Gabi and O with 15, and it was also our record goal scoring season in the league with 88. Mikel’s plan is to clearly spread goals around to not let other defenses zero in on one star player or depend on just one 30 goal a year scorer in case of injury.
I mostly agree with the article:
The issue for me is that Arsenal are a trusted forward short.
There are have 4 and there needs to be 5. Arteta’s hoping Eddie, Reiss or both can be that, but Eddie isn’t hitting the levels and Reiss is barely playing.
A big man seems most logical, but I don’t think we need one. We probably would’ve won the league with Martinelli, Jesus, Saka if we had better depth last year and we’ve seen City and Liverpool perform at record breaking levels without a classic, target man striker
We should get a monster dribbler who can get to the byline and play on the right and left a la Douglas Costa or Ousmane Dembele. This will allow us to play Trossard through the middle more.
Eddie is our leading goal scorer in the league so far.
We can talk about getting the best out of really good forwards, but we need a world class striker. Not someone who will maybe become a world class striker, but someone established and proven who will reliably bang in 20-25 goals in the league (in addition to the goals expected from the rest of the team). Need to be prepared to spend Declan Rice money or more.
If we land that type of player, we will have levelled the playing field.
Who is reliably gonna score 20-25 ? Salah/haaland/kane have been the only ones who have done it regularly and we ain’t signing anyone like that.
Even osimen has only done it once.
Why do we need this when we had our record goal scoring Premier League season last year with 88, and our top scorers had “only” 15. People need to learn to stop focusing on individual goals, that isn’t important, team goals are.
Because that still wasn’t enough. Man City have moved the landscape, if we want the PL we need more goals and the quickest way to that is upgrade Eddie at CF.
Yeah the whole “20 goal a season” is a lazy thing pundits say.
We need two more.
Another pacey winger type, preferably a Saka backup/rotation, basically a Martinelli but on the other side.
And a true, world class, goal scoring #9.
Easier said than done though, especially for the second one lol.
I’d settle for an improvement on Eddie. There aren’t many Haalands out there, but there are some good strikers who could do that role for us.
Neto + Osimhen
Neto has had 2 bad injuries and just done his hamstring, that worries me. He does look like a great option though
One that scores would be a start
I kind of liked Wahi in the CL games I’ve seen him in
Literally every team needs a Giroud. A tall hefty cunt in the front they ping the ball off of
I always loved giroud for this, genuinely the best out there for ping ponging the ball off he had an amazing touch
We have Havertz for this
Havertz both sucks and is ugly.
Giroud rocked and is very handsome.
I caught the Milan highlights, and was going, you know I wouldn’t not take Ollie G as a option off the bench. Dude misses sitters, but he’s always super professional, and scores enough to be something different off the bench. Also, you know, more competition at goal keeper.
We can’t afford a striker upgrade in January and discussing potential transfers for summer is pointless at this time.
You’re probably right.
M’bappe please. Free in the summer. I’m willing to wait.
“Free”
Big, physical, fast, great header, good with linkup and defensive press duties. I still think hojlund would have cooked with bukayo and Gabi by his side. That pace would have murdered teams.
I really do worry about how good hojlund is gonna be, so physically gifted, good striker of the ball and seems to make good runs… injuries and UTD being generally stupid are the only things that are gonna stop him.
Answer: We need the type of courageous, world-class forward who scores in the final of the CL against Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, because he has been waiting for his whole life for the moment. He is right in his element, he won’t turtle, he will rise to the occasion and destroy his opponent both psychologically and physically. He has the testicles and the minimum skill set of Jesus, Mbappe…players at that level. That’s what we need to win the Big Things.
I said it last year - we should have tried to poach Mitrovic from Fulham. Great hold-up play, good skill, proven goalscorer.
Elye Wahi?
Brobbey
Has a cool name and looks cool but there’s many better out there