According to Viv Anderson, the ex-Arsenal defender, the Gunners have the quality to win the 2024-25 league title. Anderson, while addressing Arsenal’s title hopes, he singled out four Gunners who are crucial to the club’s 2024-25 title charge.
He contends that Havertz, who has had a promising start with two goals and an assist in three games, must maintain his form in front of goal and become the 20-goal striker Arsenal requires. If he achieves that, and Raheem Sterling and Bukayo Saka deliver, and Gabriel maintains his excellent form from the last two seasons, he feels Arsenal may just have what it takes to win the 2024-25 Premier League title.
“You could say Arsenal need a centre-forward like (Erling) Haaland who is going to score them 20-odd league goals, but Kai Havertz has started quite well,” said Anderson on Sky Sports.
“So if he can continue to get in the positions to score the goals and is up there with 15 or 16, maybe even 20, then you are going to be thereabouts.
“With the likes of Sterling, Saka, and Gabriel at the back, Arsenal have got some really good players, so it is going to be close.”
Arsenal has enjoyed an okay start to the season, with two wins and a draw after three games. They are not as high-flying as the Citizens, who have started the season with three straight victories.
Nonetheless, the league campaign is still in its early stages, and our Gunners should not be concerned about the start of the new season; they still control their fate; all they need is for their stars to step up and deliver. Winning their next 2 games against Tottenham and Manchester City could be a good start!
Sam P
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“You could say Arsenal need a centre-forward like (Erling) Haaland who is going to score them 20-odd league goals…” I don’t know why people keep making these sort of comments yet there really is no such a player in world football. There’s no other Haaland. We should focus on ourselves and how we can improve rather than worry about what City are doing.
City may have an advantage over us in attack with Haaland, but we can also say we have an advantage defensively. We’d probably have nine points same as them if not for the controversial red card,having played the tougher fixtures.
Clearly, there’s no other Haaland who, by the way, has comfortably surpassed the “20-odd league goals” with 27 and 36 since arriving at City. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t strikers who get into lower double figures on a regular basis. Arsenal doesn’t yet have anyone that’s done that consistently.
We all hope Havertz (staying injury, suspension and fatigue-free – which is a lot to ask) will build upon his 13 EPL goals last season obviously. However, Jesus on 4 goals needs a huge improvement over 2023-24, and that from a striker with injury problems who historically doesn’t score a lot of goals in many seasons anyway.
In my opinion, it’s therefore not really a question of “There isn’t a Haaland MkII, so forget it”, it’s more to do with asking if Arsenal’s current strikers can get into that double figure slot consistently. If they can, that’s great. If they can’t for any reason or combination of reasons more likely, then the recent 10-week window could become a major missed opportunity.
No but we already know that based on how many years he’s been in England