If there is one certainty in my eyes, it is that Arsenal will recruit a striker this winter.
Week after week, it’s been said that Arsenal aren’t clinical enough, and that’s the only thing keeping them from being as dominant as they should be. Nonetheless, a handful of top strikers have been linked. Victor Osimhen is one of them.
Napoli could absolutely lead Arsenal to the next level. There aren’t many players in the game that are as excellent as him right now. However, his high price tag may be the most difficult impediment for Arsenal in their pursuit of him. There is speculation that he might cost up to 150 million euros.
Although Arsenal demonstrated with their swoop for Declan Rice that they are willing to pursue any player, buying Osimhen may jeopardize their other transfer ambitions.
Former Liverpool and Scotland midfielder Don Hutchinson believes Arsenal can raise funds for Osimhen by selling Mohammed Elneny (who Atletico Madrid are rumored to want), Reiss Nelson (who has impressed when he has played), Emile Smith Rowe (who is yet to break into the team), and Eddie Nketiah (who is set to make way for a new striker).
“If you’re going for strikers and you have some money to spend, just some names roughly, if Arsenal want to get some money in to sign Victor Osimhen, who I think is one of the best out there, you could sell Elneny, Nketiah, Nelson, and Smith Rowe; there’s plenty of players out there you can get some funds in for this top striker,” said Hutchinson on the BBC.
If that is the price Arsenal is willing to pay for Osimhen, I don’t understand why they wouldn’t go with it. There’s little doubt that the 24-year-old Nigerian international, along with Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka, could be Arsenal’s attack for years to come.
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Elneny’s down to the last months in his contract.
Osimhen moves the needle in a big way.
The only player you will sell to fund your Osinhiem is Elneny. The trio of Smith Rowe, Nketiah and Nelson are wonderful players. Arteta’s tactics is our biggest problem. No attacker can be on top gear when both Havertz and Odegaard are on the pitch at the same time as your attacking midfielder and central midfielder. If you want to understand what I’m saying, go and re- watch our game with Sheffield United where the trio of Martinelli, Nketiah and Smith Rowe were on the pitch at the same time, the later being our attacking midfielder. We pumped five into there net, with Nketiah scoring hat trick. That is our highest score line this season and its surprising that Arteta never repeated that lineup and formation again. The only player that deserved to be dropped in that lineup is Kiwior for Magalhaes. Liverpool would have been destroyed yesterday had it been we use that lineup.
In my opinion Arsenal (or any other team for that matter) should not bother with Oshimen at least until the summer. He is making Caicedo like moves and while I always preferred him to an Ivan Toney I am starting to see where the differences are growing in terms of getting the deal done. One just keeps creating hurdles whilst the other could even be a loan deal for our FFP situation.
So we sell four players and get one in return?
Of course we need a CF and a better one than either Nketiah and Nelson, but what happens if the new signing gets injured?
We know that can happen, as we have Timber out of course.
I also predict that Elneny will stay at The Arsenal – not necessarily as a player, but he will be involved within the club.
That’s why it makes sense to me that we sign Toney, a proven PL scorer and keep all three players mentioned until the end of the season.
With the current injuries to Partey, Jorginho, Timbers and Tomiyasu, we need to strengthen the squad depth, not weaken it.
Ken, I also expect Elneny to remain at Arsenal after his contract expires but, mercifully, NOT as a player. I dont see us making ANY high price purchase this window.
Just perhaps a lower price player though, but no superstar types in Jan.
The article doesnt make any sense Ken. The whole situation pointed out, would not and will not ever happen. Football doesnt work like that.
Why Osimhen? This season 7 goals in 13 matches – in Serie A. I fear that Osimhen at Emirates would be like Super-Mario Balotelli at Anfield. A guy scoring just once, before disappearing out into the dessert. Osimhen? £130M for almost nothing. It’s hard to know what to expect of a continental player. You can’t even be sure that Kylian Mbappé would be a success. Rather Toney then – or the Swedish guy, Gyökeres, who did it well in Coventry. Players who know it will be hard, tough, fast football in snow sometimes. Try to imagine Mbappé, the Castafiore of soccer, playing in a snow storm…
I’ve never seen Osimhen play, or do I expect to, but 7 in 13 is a very good return, especially in Serie A.
It will be an uphill task to sign Osimhen next month. Even if we do, he ‘s going off to the AFCON until mid February. It’s probably too late to be able to sign a good CF in the middle of the season. Should have done it in preseason but we chose to sign a RB and GK over a CF
Was this article written before Osimhen was announced extending his Napoli contract.
Buyout clause is something like £104 mill iirc. So basically not an option any more.
Dream on.
Losing three “home grown” players in one fell swoop!
Never going to happen.
Paying substantial fees for overseas players is unwise in my opinion, I wouldn’t go to 100m for a player who is used to Italian football, I’d rather gamble on Toney for a lesser fee
On another note. Does anyone think it’s a bit sly how Liv chooses to water their pitch? They overdo it rather than looking to just make the passes zip, and I’d say they pay attention to certain areas. A lot of our players slipped whereas I didn’t see one Liv player do the same. That’s why it was only fair that they didn’t get the penalty in my mind. Also, it could cause nasty injuries the way that they water it and I think someone should look into it. If they choose to do that at half time it gives them an advantage because the away team can’t try to rectify it by changing their studs
Arsenal must sell some players like Thomas,elneni,joginho,cetric and there is some good players at loans that must be sell too.victor osihnam is the only striker arsenal should get please not toney please edu and arteta
It is good if asenal could add these two or three top players into the squad to make them stand any team in the world 🌎, THOU with careful planning because it would not sound well after buying all this players and Notting happened it will be a labour lost but am pretty sure that adding this top players arsenal will go a long way to top both championship and the champions table for many years to come with ateta arsenal will break through any defence or any wall form to against the squad that’s my own little inclination.
That is some email address. I’m glad that you’re not in my contacts.😃
…and now it’s been edited.
Yes mate. No-one should EVER give out their email address on a public forum in my opinion, don’t you agree?
Please arteta, get rid of those players that are not irelevant, Smith Rowe, elneny, Cedric,partey is weak, Eddie nketiah is not improving, jorginho is old and Gabriel j. Is not always there when really needed.
When we sell all of this seven players, we can get Oshimhen and another average striker with a potential.