This summer’s transfer window appears to be going as planned for Arsenal. Arteta had planned to revamp his defense and midfield, and he appears to have made moves to ensure that these two areas are better than they were last season. With the midfield and defense likely to be at their best next season, the question is, “Can the Gunners rely on the attack to deliver?”
Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka are expected to have strong seasons, but few know what to anticipate from Gabriel Jesus. There are whispers that the Gunners will only be able to trust their offense if they can recruit a 20-goal striker. In terms of Arsenal’s attack, Simon Jordan believes a top striker should be signed and Jesus should be given a winger role (likely as Saka’s deputy) where he can score more goals.
“Jesus thrived for a period of time at Arsenal, and he’s a very decent player. I’m not sure he’s the answer to all of Arsenal’s ails because I think they need a 25-goal-a-season striker, and I’m not sure he’s it,” said Jordan.
"I'm not sure he's the answer to #AFC's ails!" 😬
"I think that Arsenal need a 25 goal per season striker, I'm not sure Jesus is it." 👀
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“We’ve had this conversation about his mental approach, playing for Brazil and being prepared or wanting to play out wide, rather than playing down the middle, which you would think would be better for him because that’s where he’s going to score more goals.”
There have been calls for Arteta to sign Saka’s backup, but I feel the Spaniard should sign a striker instead. There are links to FC Porto’s Mehdi Teremi (who scored 22 league goals in 33 appearances for Porto last season), and Arsenal could sign him and rotate him with Nketiah and Jesus in the number 9 slot. This change may allow Jesus to play on the right wing when Saka requires a break.
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One good way is to make him focus on scoring goals and not too much focus on the build up or dropping deep. He definitely has the ability to get more goals with a killer instinct focused on scoring goals.
Arsenal need a top striker that can fight for goal 🥅🥍
We didn’t have a “proven goal scorer” last season and yet we came second in the scoring chart. None of our players scored more than 15 goals in the PL. The scoring responsibility was spread across the team. This to me is a strength which should be built on.
Our undoing last season was the defense especially after Saliba’s injury. The signing of Timber is obviously to address this.
If Saka needs a rest, or is injured, the options would be
– play Reiss Nelson wide right
– play Nketiah or even Havertz centrally and shift Jesus to Saka’s position
Agreed. The team is doing fine when jesus leading the line as he’s doing really well regarding the way the team is playing. I don’t really care even if he is scoring 10 or less goal a season as long as the team keep on winning. We don’t need a 25 goals a season cf in this system. Now we have havertz/trossard as an option upfront to make a tactical switch. I would rather have a collective and collaborative style of football to confuse opponents than have a single marksman kind of st(but would love to see a drogba kind of st if we’re looking for one). More fun to watch isn’t it?
It doesn’t look like Arteta wants to bring in a traditional CF by all accounts but I think we could really do with a plan b option to offer us something different whenever we might be struggling in certain games. However I do think we will bring one more attacking signing but that will depend on which position the manager plans to use Trossard Nelson and ESR in which is not entirely clear atm.
Option 1
LCM
Havertz
ESR
RW
Saka
*New signing
LW
Martinelli
Nelson
ST
Jesus
Trossard
Option 2
LCM
Havertz
*New signing
RW
Saka
Nelson
LW
Martinelli
ESR
ST
Jesus
Trossard
Option 3
LCM
Havertz
ESR
LW
Martinelli
Trossard
ST
Jesus
*New signing
It’s making sense
oh yeah sign a striker and sell a striker. mind boggled
No we don’t.
We scored a club record of 88 in the epl last season with jesus missing 12 matches. Even considering his wastefulness in front of goal, i would expect him to bag at least 15 if he was fit all season.
Odeggard 15
Martinelli 15
Saka 14
Jesus 15
Add to that trossard and havertz
So we are just going to keep one of the club’s most talented and highest paid players on the bench,as a backup?That sounds like a brilliant idea!!! The whole idea of having a striker like Jesus is to have someone who can interchange seamlessly with the other forwards. Does anyone really believe a striker in the mold of Haaland can occupy the LW ,RW or AM during various phases of play the way Jesus does it? I’m fine with Jesus scoring 15 goals because I believe his pressing and trickery enables Saka,Martinelli and Odegaard score more goals than they would manage with an archetypal number nine.
Also have we considered what such a move would have on Jesus’ confidence? The player came to Arsenal obviously because he would be a guaranteed starter. Do we wish to have a discontented player on the bench while collecting massive wages? Be careful what you wish for.
No!
The good things i have heard is we ARE looking at bringing another striker in but after we sell Balogun.
A 30-year old from Porto.
You are kidding me.
NO!
Never mentioned a 30 year old from Porto.
Havertz can play False 9, AM & LW, Jesus can do the same, 2 different options.
If you watch Kia he scores alot of goals with his head using his height, great link up play and Jesus plays low, trickery and can link up the play also.
SmithRowe can learn that Xhaka role I believe will be super there in midfield, wasted out wide, can also play in Ødes position too as can Kia for both roles.
We have so many options to be able to switch things up in a game and players interchanging all the time in that system. Each will be in a position and know where the others are.