Mikel Arteta and Alexander Isak (Photograph by Alex Pantling, Ian MacNicol/Getty Photos)
Former Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury has urged the Gunners to signal a 25-goal-a-season striker, with Alexander Isak wanting the best candidate.
Isak scored the winning goal with an outstanding header for Newcastle of their 1-0 win over Mikel Arteta’s aspect on the weekend, and there’s been loads of discuss in regards to the Sweden worldwide being firmly on the north Londoners’ radar.
Isak was praised on commentary throughout that recreation for his “completely sensible” play for that objective, and it’s little shock to see the 25-year-old now being talked about as a prime priority target for Arsenal by retailers like Team Talk.
Arsenal may absolutely do with changing Kai Havertz, or a minimum of having a barely totally different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak seems to be like he suits the invoice.
Arsenal want a 25-goal-a-season striker
Lansbury, talking on the launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t identify any particular names, however mentioned he’d wish to see his outdated membership signal somebody who can provide round 25 objectives a season.
“I’ve mentioned it for a few years now: I believe they want an out-and-out striker; I believe they want a quantity 9 who will go and rating them objectives,” Lansbury mentioned.
“Who that’s? I don’t know. It’s a tricky one. They want somebody who’ll assure them 25 objectives a season.”
Isak is unquestionably the right candidate, as our columnist Charles Watts has mentioned.
“I’ve at all times mentioned that Alexander Isak is ideal for Arsenal,” Watts informed us lately. “He can be on the prime of my record of latest forwards if he have been to turn into accessible.”
Arsenal followers will seemingly have a number of different concepts of their minds as properly, with prime strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally wanting spectacular in current instances, although it stays to be seen how reasonable they’d be.
