Arsenal can land £84.5m dream striker to close gap to Erling Haaland and unlock Martin Odegaard
The striker position remains a key point of interest for Arsenal and despite currently outperforming their goal tally from the previous campaign at the same stage — a period in which racked up the most in the club’s Premier League history for a single season – the desire to add a top centre-forward persists. That said, who that might be remains the key question.
Arsenal need to find a player who has delivered consistent goals but also creativity in the form of assists.Mikel Arteta requires his centre-forward to link play hence why he moved early on for Gabriel Jesus.
However, the Brazilian’s persistent injury problems and question marks over his finishing consistency have not enabled him to end the talk of forwards.Hence why the club remain keen on a striker signing that is likely to bring a close to Eddie Nketiah’s time with the club.
Erling Haaland is the pinnacle of centre-forwards of the current generation and the target for Arsenal in regards to closing the gap. Therefore finding the highest scoring player on the market might indeed be the way to do so.
Currently, leading the way across Europe’s leagues at both domestic and European level is Sporting CP’s Viktor Gyokeres. The Portuguese side must still be pinching themselves that they managed to secure the Coventry City striker who cost them a little under £20million.
The Swede has slotted away 27 goals and added a further 11 assists to his tally and so has 38 goal contributions in 29 games across all competitions. This is 11 more than Erling Haaland, who has played just three fewer games and one more than Kylian Mbappe, two more than Harry Kane.
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