Arsenal is increasingly likely to start next season with their current attacking options, despite summer talks about signing a new striker.
Mikel Arteta’s side has a list of players they believe can enhance their attack and have been working on it for some time. Several names have been considered, but Arsenal has ruled out moves for Benjamin Sesko and Ivan Toney. Sesko opted to stay at RB Leipzig for another season, while Toney no longer excites them as much.
Calcio Napoli24 reports that Arsenal has now removed another name from their shopping list: Victor Osimhen. Despite being available for sale and not featuring in Napoli’s plans for the new season, Arsenal no longer views him as a key target. The Gunners will now look for other options.
Osimhen is one of the top strikers in Europe, and Arsenal has been interested in him for several months. However, they have decided against pursuing his signing this summer.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Osimhen is one of the best strikers around, and he has so many goals in him, but if we determine that he is too expensive or does not fit our style of play, there is no need to sign him.
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Not a surprise really. There were reports a few days ago that suggest his wage demands would be a sticking point.
He is on a large wage at Napoli with tax concessions not available in the UK and he apparently wanted a pretty big increase over that.
It was suggested that this would destroy Arsenal’s wage structure which has taken several years to put into place.
I still can’t work out why Ivan Toney isn’t seen as a potential target.He certainly offers something that neither Jesus nor Harvertz can….and given Jesus’s injury record and Neketiah’s likely departure I cannot fathom our lack of interest…especially at the price we’re led to believe that he would cost.
We need someone who could make a difference when we’re faced with the “double block”…Who would do the nasty stuff…the hard yards when we’re out of ideas from the usual sources…I truly believe that he could be the “difference”!!…But obviously…we fans don’t make these decisions we merely watch them unfold…
Who knows, he may become one (again). The options of available strikers, whether Arsenal are/were much interested in them or not, is beginning to decrease.
I hope Edu and colleagues have got a firmed-up candidate ready to move for or I suspect we’ll run out of options or time, or both.
4 goals in 17 PL games last season, one every 362 minutes, that’s probably why
you won’t like this but Nketiah scored his PL goals at a rate of 1 every 214 minutes in PL 2023/24
Arsenal would have finished miles behind in the run-in with Toney as our striker, sub Toney in and Havertz out for those same 17 games and may be don’t even make CL places!
I don’t want Toney at the club either but not for lack of goal scoring ability. That first stat is an aberation in his career and for a player coming back from a long absence. imo, there’s no definite way of telling what he would have done in any other club for those 17 games let alone one otherwise so much better than Brentford.
I have a deep feeling we will make a move for him in the last days of the window, and by then, his price would have gone down further becausee scared shit about l Brighton will bosing him for nothing. There is even the school of thought that we might see a swap with Nelson going the other way which will be a shrewd business by Arsenal. Losing a homegrown player in Nketiah and replacing him with another will be an astute business from Arsenal’s perspective. There is something there because we genuinely missed out on Sesko, so there must be a backup plan, and I suspect it’s Ivan. His relationship with Declan also tells me he would prefer a move to Arsenal. He’s a safe bet because he’s tried and tested in the premier league, as against Osimen and Gyokores, that could potentially lead us to another Pepe situation.
i agree we genuinely missed out on Sesko, but he stayed with his club rather than going to another one with a view of moving next summer, so still available and part of long term plan
signing a Toney, or Osimhen etc now means Arsenal will not be able to sign Sesko next year, otherwise too many high price high wage strikers on the books (ironically), so hence I expect the Edu/Arteta plan is to wait until next year for Sesko and make do with what we have this season
of course there is always the winter window, may be 6 months the situation for both Sesko and Arsenal might look different
but either way can not see Arsenal committing to a long term contract for Toney
if I was one of decision maker in arsenal I would go for the Aston villa striker, I don’t know what makes arteta not to consider him
Perhaps because he’s not for sale and Villa don’t need to sell.
Absolutely agree 💯.
Watkins is “an Arsenal striker” through and through
He is english and would be expensive. Secondly, he isn’t the age profile arsenal wants.
Victor is more versatile as a striker than he’s given credit for. His big miscalculation was to sign an extension with Napoli allowing for a high buyout clause. All he’d to do was follow the Mbappe blueprint. His agent advised him poorly. Now, he can’t play for any of the clubs he desired.
You got it spot on. His eyes was on his big pay, not realising the problem the clause will create fit his future.
arsenal will be second again, have not addressed problem of a goal scoring centre forward.
still not got rid of dross like zinchenco,nelson,partey,tierney,neketa.
same old arsenal thinking small penny pinchers.
I still don’t understand why Arsenal don’t want to buy a standout striker who can push us to the title this season. We knows that arsenal need a striker but look at our leaders, as if they don’t know our problem. We have everything to challenge for trophies but the only problem in our miss is a striker now. Please I want to ask board that they don’t need trophies they come on air and tell us so that we can join the likes of Madrid and Cities for trophies.
MY only concern with the lack of a designated and proven striker that in those matches – not many but we had last year – when the rest of the team just fails to capitalise on often limited but sometimes plenty of opportunities can cost us the title. Just one match we’ve lost would have been won, we’ve been champions.
Arsenal should sign Nico Williams and maybe leave striker department for next transfer window and see how it goes with our current attackers
Having Nico and saka as our wingers which they can always cut in and shoot
Will definitely go a long way
Though I still believe V. Gyokeres will be the best option for Arsenal
I have watched him alot
I think he will fit in