Mikel Arteta and Alexander Isak (Photograph by Alex Pantling, Ian MacNicol/Getty Photographs)
Former Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury has urged the Gunners to signal a 25-goal-a-season striker, with Alexander Isak trying the best candidate.
Isak scored the profitable objective with an excellent header for Newcastle of their 1-0 win over Mikel Arteta’s facet on the weekend, and there’s been loads of speak in regards to the Sweden worldwide being firmly on the north Londoners’ radar.
Isak was praised on commentary throughout that recreation for his “completely good” play for that objective, and it’s little shock to see the 25-year-old now being talked about as a prime precedence goal for Arsenal by retailers like Crew Speak.
Arsenal might absolutely do with changing Kai Havertz, or at the very least having a barely totally different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak appears like he matches the invoice.
Arsenal want a 25-goal-a-season striker
Lansbury, talking on the launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t title any particular names, however stated he’d prefer to see his outdated membership signal somebody who can provide round 25 targets a season.
“I’ve stated 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 targets,” Lansbury stated.
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“Who that’s? I don’t know. It’s a tricky one. They want somebody who’ll assure them 25 targets a season.”
Isak is unquestionably the right candidate, as our columnist Charles Watts has stated.
Alexander Isak scoring in opposition to Arsenal on the weekend (Pictures by Stu Forster/Getty Photographs)
“I’ve all the time stated that Alexander Isak is ideal for Arsenal,” Watts informed us just lately. “He can be on the prime of my listing of latest forwards if he had been to turn into obtainable.”
Arsenal followers will doubtless have a number of different concepts of their minds as properly, with prime strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally trying spectacular in latest instances, although it stays to be seen how reasonable they’d be.