Although he claims that the position is one of the most difficult to fill, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is eager to add a new striker this summer.
Unfortunately, despite consistent improvement under Arteta since taking over in December 2019, Arsenal will finish the fifth straight season without a trophy.
The 2020 FA Cup and Arsenal are still his only trophies. The team is therefore under pressure to strengthen their forward line this summer in order to increase their prospects of winning more awards.
According to sources, Arsenal has shortlisted Alexander Isak of Newcastle, Viktor Gyökeres of Sporting Lisbon, and Benjamin Sesko of Red Bull Leipzig.
Arteta brought up his remarks from the January transfer window, when the team made a last-minute attempt to recruit Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins, in response to the striker query.
“Do I have to make it more clear? In January it was clear or not?” he said. “I told you because you were in the room I think many times and it was a very clear statement. The statement continues the same.
“I want the best team, the best player. If we have three goal scorers over 25, bring them in and we’re going to be a much better team.”
“Probably they are because there’s not that many that put those numbers [up]. It’s something that’s in the stats. There’s not that many in the Premier League”, he added.
“I will try to improve but certainly improve the ones that we have right now and love the ones that we have right now”.
“Especially after losing it’s too easy to just go and look elsewhere and don’t use the moment to judge players especially.
“Because, I was asked a lot of questions about certain players in this room, always in certain moments. But when other players have outperformed other players that we were discussing, I have zero questions in the last 11 months.
“It’s all relative to the context, to the moment and the narrative that you want to generate. I understand that.”
After finishing second with 89 points and scoring 91 goals, Arteta’s side are on 67 points with 64 goals scored ahead of their final three matches.
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