How do Arsenal improve organically?

The summer naturally brings a lot of focus on the transfer window and who Arsenal might buy to improve their lot ahead of next season. That is, of course, the predominant and most important way a club can strengthen ahead of a season- not least because you don’t get another opportunity to do it until January and we are talking about transactions of tens of millions of pounds here.

Even for a club of Arsenal’s wealth, spending £50-60m on fees and whatever else in wages poorly has a ripple effect. However, the summer also offers clubs the opportunity to reflect on organic improvement. How can they do things better? How can they maximise their existing talent? These conversations will be well under way within the staff.

Before I speculate on what some of those discussion points might be, it’s worth reflecting on the fact that we can’t assume that all the high baselines for Arsenal in 2023-24 will remain the same. Maybe Leandro Trossard’s finishing is not as proficient next season, perhaps Arsenal aren’t as prolific from setpieces, maybe (gulp) one of Saka, Odegaard, Saliba, Rice or Gabriel gets a medium to long-term injury. Nevertheless, let’s look at some marginals that Arsenal might want to target ahead of 2024-25 using the resource they already have.

Make Arsenal Brazilian again

In 2022-23, in lieu of a truly prolific striker, Arsenal were good at spreading goals around the attack. Gabriel Martinelli, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus all got into double figures for Premier League goals. Leandro Trossard was added to the squad in January 2023 and Kai Havertz was added a few months later.

Trossard and Havertz both obliged with double figures for Premier League goals in 2023-24 while Saka repeated that feat. Odegaard had eight goals but, along with his 10 assists, he can feel happy about his output for the season (not least because the fans voted for him as Player of the Season). The issue for Arsenal is that, instead of significantly…

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Author : Tim Stillman

Publish date : 2024-06-20 12:29:55

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