It turns out Arsenal is still very interested in Victor Osimhen, despite what we previously believed. So, there was some news about Chelsea potentially signing Osimhen on loan while negotiating Lukaku’s move to Napoli. That made us wonder if Arsenal ever had any interest in the Nigerian striker. If they did, it would be strange that they would let him join Chelsea on loan, especially since they could have made a similar deal themselves.
According to Corriere Dello Sport, it seems that Arsenal has renewed their interest in the Serie A striker. Arsenal has been a fan of Osimhen for quite some time, and they definitely don’t want to see him go to Stamford Bridge.
It’s actually quite interesting that the player himself, according to that report, doesn’t see Chelsea as his first choice for his next club. Considering the hefty £110 million release clause, it might seem downright impossible to entertain the idea of signing Osimhen on a permanent deal.
However, there’s some positive news about that swoop. Napoli is actually open to letting the hitman go and is considering loan offers for the player. A loan deal is definitely within Arsenal’s budget. In fact, the successful loan deal with David Raya should give them some encouragement that they can bring Osimhen on board and see if he’s the right fit for them next season.
Surely, whether you’re a fan or not, bringing Osimhen on loan could be a fantastic transfer opportunity for Arsenal. It’s definitely something they shouldn’t overlook, don’t you think?
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I doubt Arsenal could afford him. PSG are apparently the favourites, and they can offer far superior wages in any case.
According to latest reports Arsenal are looking to the likes of Brighton or Bournemouth for a possible striker.
Osimhen is one of the Arsenal fans favourite for obvious reasons. He is a gamble with regards to injuries.
Gyokeres is another favourite and also a gamble for other reasons regarding the huge step up from Portugal to the premier league.
But my dream striker would be to convert WIRTZ to a number 9 for Arsenal.
I think this will be his eventual position, like when Henry was converted to a striker.
They, Henry and WIRTZ have very similar ball control skill qualities, both world class technical attacking players.
Arsenal will be playing WIRTZ and Bayern in a friendly this Wednesday I think, and I am dreaming that Arteta makes Bayern an offer for the world class attacker. Wirtz will become a world class striker, why not with Arsenal.
Check out Wirtz YouTube video, it’s unbelievable. You will see what I mean about the Henry (ball stuck to foot) style and his exceptional quality goals.
How can you compare Osimhen and Wirtz?
We’re talking about a No 9. We’re talking about someone who will bang in the goals for us day in, day out.
Apart from Kane and Halaand, where else in Europe can you find a more prolific No 9?
Firstly, Wirtz is never going to join Arsenal. Secondly, he will almost certainly never be a striker. False 9 maybe but striker is a specialist position and he lacks the physicality for the job. He is fantastic at arriving on the edge of the box but being in there fighting off defenders is a very different thing.
Henry wasn’t ‘converted’ to a striker, he was converted from a striker into a wide player. Wenger only put him back into his natural position.
As Ben has posted, Wirtz is not, or never will be a number 9. He’s more of a Asharvin, Zola type of player.
Btw, we’re not playing Bayern this week, it’s Bayer Leverkusen.
Herr Drier,
You need to re-check your facts instead of shamefully correcting people’s spelling mistakes, it belittle’s you.
Henry played senior professional football with Monaco and Juventus as a winger, then when he joined Arsenal in 1999, Wenger immediately changed this to a striker position.
You’re having a laugh if you are referring to his childhood position.
I know Goalkeepers that have played striker as a kid. Get real.
He was one of the few players that went to Clairefontaine, which is where all the best French youngsters go, without a club. It was there that Gerard Houllier spotted him and spoke to Wenger. Wenger then signed him for Monaco, where he played for the reserves. The season Wenger got the sack, Henry played one first team game.
At Juventus he also played as a wingback, which he was uncomfortable with.
It would seem that it’s you, daveg, that needs to check their facts.
I wasn’t picking up on your spelling, just correcting you on who we are playing, as someone might have read your post and thought we are playing Bayern Munich.
So I am correct, Henry was a winger with Monaco and Juventus as a senior player before coming to Arsenal in 1999 and then Wenger converted him to a striker.
You seem to have missed that part out, or avoided it in your response, which was me correcting your facts as you tried to rubbish mine.
Check your response at 6.08pm stating that Henry was already a natural striker and my reply at 6.54pm stating he was not a striker at professional and senior level before 1999. Then your reply 7.49pm where you forgot and missed the point and don’t even mention the word striker in your comment, which was where I corrected your facts mentioned 6.08pm with my facts at 6.54pm.
Talk about trying to dig yourself out of a hole after trying to rubbish someone s comments. Reread 6.08pm and 6.49pm and the point of those comments regarding Henry as a striker, then you strange comment in 7.49pm avoiding the word striker and hence the disputed facts.
Your so funny. LoL.
Oh yeh, it’s “you’re” so funny, not “your” so funny.
I thought I’d better correct the spelling mistake before you did, as you seem to poorly like to try and belittle peoples spelling and wording in their comments from other past blogg posts, which nobody likes.
Wtf are you on about ?
daveg, you seem to be a bit of a child. I’m unsure which use of ‘your’ you are attempting to ‘correct’ in Herr Drier’s post. Whichever it is you are wrong. There were zero typos in that post, and what’s more, Herr Drier’s grasp of basic punctuation is far superior to yours, as indeed is his football knowledge.
Engage your brain before getting into silly little internet fights.
Tbh, daveg, this entire thread has been a bit of a disaster for you.
So because I never mentioned the word striker I must be wrong then 😂😂. Oh dear.
As for the time thing, one of my Grandsons phoned me. Next time I get a phone call I’ll ignore it, as poor old daveg needs me to reply to his post (not a blog) 🙄
It seems that I’m not the only one who takes offence at the way you try to “educate” others daveg.
When HD has corrected me, he’s done it in a mature and friendly way and respect has grown from that.
I always believed that Henry arrived as a winger and that Arsene saw the potential in him as a striker and the rest is history anyway!!
Ken1945, you are right concerning our last chat and I felt terrible as I was having a bad day and reflected this on your kind self. If you revisit that blog post you will see that I did apologise to you after your last comment as I did sound condescending and you was absolutely correct on that part, I was right about the facts though, but it was the terrible manner in which I directed this towards you. Please see my apology.
(ADMIN COMMENT – @daveg ….I am happy to leave your apology to Kem up here, but the REST of your long rambling comments about other readers was appalling and insulting. I have a feeling we will be parting ways very soon unless you calm yourself down and discuss football in a friendly manner)
Ken1945, please check back the to see the other days ending comment from me to you to see my utmost apology to you and my respect.
I think Gokyeres is more a better suit than Osimien. Statistically he has proven beyond.
I think we scored 5 or 6 fewer goals than city last season. Yes we need more out of the forward we deploy but I don’t see how Osimhen will improve our overall play, or Viktor. They will expect to be selected every week, makes some imbalances, while we were only short by fine margins the last two seasons mainly due to our team shape, play and defensive record in key games we lost. A striker doesn’t solve that. IMO MA sees city were a better team prior to Haaland and that’s his model, so a top top striker won’t fit. Just how I see it.
I agree, Dan. It works with Havertz because of his work rate, elusiveness and intelligent linkup play. I share your opinion that any orthodox striker is going to completely upset the balance and make us worse, even if THEY score more goals than Havertz.
For what it’s worth I actually think if Kai gets a whole season at striker without injury he will finish top scorer. He already demonstrated that in the second half of last season. He has everything this team needs from someone playing that position.
Ben,
I respect your opinion, but this is just my opinion but backed up with some facts.
They said that about the young winger, Henry, fantastic in arriving on the edge of the box, blar, blar, blar. But he still became a striker. Never saw Henry fighting of defenders rather more leaving them for dust as I saw him go past defenders with pace and skill. Anyway, it’s just a dream that will never happen. But here is some interesting facts about WIRTZ best positional ratings, because we all like facts. Here are his positions played that may surprise you.
Attacking Midfield centre (Apps) 37 (Average rating) 7.5
Attacking Midfield Left (Apps) 8 ((AV Rating) 6.5
Centre Forward (Apps) 3 (AV Rating) 8.0
Attacking Midfield Right (Apps) 1 (AV Rating) n/a
Right Forward (Apps) 1 (AV Rating) 6.4
He can play anywhere in attack where he is need. Leverkusen has an abundance of good forwards already, so WIRTZ plays where he is needed in Attacking Central Midfield, just behind the prolific Boniface.
His highest rating although brief through lack of opportunity was as a center forward with his highest average rating of 8.0.
Anyway, his transfer value is £130m, so yeh, just a dream, otherwise, if Arsenal had the money, why would he not come to Arsenal, what’s wrong with playing for Arsenal, not good enough?
Now THAT’S what I call a educated post sir!!
Great facts we can all learn from!!
Top player but I take our interest in him now with a pinch of salt.
At this point the gaffer will never sign a striker over a winger,
Havertz didnt score against the top teams last year, and is not the answer. Sorry, he scored once against Liverpool. But that is not good enough. We need a striker that we can be confident in Europe or against the likes of Man City. Havertz is not the answer if we want to improve. He is still useful against the teams outside the top third and not in Europe, but unless Havertz improves another level, we will need an option against top opposition. Check his match stats for last year. I am not confident he would score against the likes of Man City. Most fans have all during this transfer window been crying out for a new striker, but you prefer Havertz. They can’t all be wrong. Anyway, let’s hope Arteta knows more than all of us.
He scored twice against Chelsea and he scored against spurs away? Scored against Newcastle as well (tho not a top team). I’m not saying he’s a top striker but your doing him a disservice.
I love Havertz and know he is highly valuable to the team, but their is something missing in the big games. Some people judge strikers by the total goals which is right and natural, but top quality strikers are able to produce on the day in those very big games against top opposition. I just think Arsenal need a quality striker option against the very top teams other than relying on our winger Saka, who has that quality but is unfortunately not a striker. Havertz may step up another level and suprise us all, but their is a reason why so many fans are crying out for a quality striker as it is plain to see that Havertz lacks that confidence in the very big games and hardly even has a shot on target against the big teams. We need options up front where the big teams can fear our striker as we fear the likes of Haaland.
Havertz may have his weaknesses, but he is the very definition of a big game player. The guy has scored in a Champions League final-football matches don’t get much bigger than that.I don’t think it’s a coincidence we had our best record against the big six in recent years with Havertz in the team. He was a huge contributor to that. Interestingly the Haaland you mention doesn’t have a great record in semi finals and finals. No matter who we sign, I would always have Havertz in the big games because he’s one player who doesn’t seem to be fazed by big occasions. He’s done it in a Champions League final!
You make some valid points and it’s your opinion of course I respect. But Havertz is not the answer and the majority of fans will tell you that we need a quality striker that can freighten defences and scored against European teams and the big premier teams on a regular basis. He can’t live off one glorious goal scored in the final for some other team. Check last season’s match facts. You are probably in the minority of 10% that thinks we don’t need a striker, but I agree with the majority of fans and hopefully the manager that we need another striker to share the responsibility with Havertz, especially in the big games, according to 90% of media and fan comments and last year’s match facts.
Havertz is still useful and I share your love for him, but we need better and I respect your opinion as I do most others that are not rude.
Daveg I’m not saying we don’t need another striker. I was refuting your point that Havertz doesn’t turn up in the big games. As a matter of fact,Havertz registered 10 goals + assists against the big 6 last season,which I think was the most of any Arsenal player. So it’s clearly not just that Champions League goal,he does turn up for the big games. And these statistics don’t include the role he played in our narrow win against City and the 3-1 win vs Liverpool. I’m all for another attacker who offers something we don’t have,be it at Centre Forward or on the flanks.
If Arsenal know what they are doing they would get Osimhen sharp, sharp. Arsenal go get Osimhen now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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People think it’s all about a striker banging in goals. It’s more about a team play than a striker scoring goals for fun. You need to look at osimhen’s style of play and ask if he suits our style or not.
And i would understand if Arsenal does not go for him. Right now, it’s all just rumours
Apology accepted. Maybe have a word with your GP about your confusion and memory loss, they may well be able help you.
This post was meant as a reply to daveg.
(ADMIN COMMENT – If you can’t have sensible conversation without your sniping and baiting, you will be moderated. Be warmed, both of you)
Fair enough.