Mikel Arteta and Alexander Isak (Picture by Alex Pantling, Ian MacNicol/Getty Pictures)
Former Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury has urged the Gunners to signal a 25-goal-a-season striker, with Alexander Isak wanting the perfect candidate.
Isak scored the successful objective 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 precedence goal for Arsenal by retailers like Staff Discuss.
Arsenal may absolutely do with changing Kai Havertz, or at the very least having a barely totally different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak appears to be like 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launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t title any particular names, however stated he’d prefer to see his outdated membership signal somebody who can supply round 25 targets a season.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 troublesome one. They want somebody who’ll assure them 25 targets a season.”
Isak is definitely the proper candidate, as our columnist Charles Watts has stated.
Alexander Isak scoring towards Arsenal on the weekend (Pictures by Stu Forster/Getty Pictures)
“I’ve at all times stated that Alexander Isak is ideal for Arsenal,” Watts instructed us just lately. “He could be on the prime of my checklist of latest forwards if he had been to turn out to be accessible.”
Arsenal followers will doubtless have a couple of different concepts of their minds as effectively, with prime strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally wanting spectacular in latest occasions, although it stays to be seen how life like they’d be.