Gooners have expressed their frustrations about how the Arsenal simply are desperate to bring in a top striker to finish many of the easy chances missed by our usual strike force.
Some Gooners believe it would be a big mistake if coach Mikel Arteta fails to sign a clinical striker in the winter transfer window, a transfer swoop he has consistently failed to nail as Arsenal’s boss.
As per Caught Offside, if Arsenal are ready to pay £58 million (70m Euros), then they’re landing their dream striker. They report that the striker’s contract runs until 2026, however, if a new contract agreement can’t be reached quickly, the club will consider selling him, and the transfer fee in January would therefore be around the €70m mark.
They go on to say that the Gunners believe Vlahovic would be the ideal striker for Mikel Arteta’s team and are prepared to move now to acquire him.
The links to Vlahovic aren’t new; he was Arteta’s first pick to be the Pierre Emerick Aubameyang replacement in the winter transfer window of 2022.
However, the then Fiorentina striker didn’t feel he was ripe for the PL switch; he opted to remain in Serie A, joining Juventus instead.
With Juventus, he has continued to demonstrate his ability to score goals. Here are his stats
2021-22: 15 games, 7 goals, 1 assist
2022-23: 27 games, 10 goals, 2 assists
2023-24: 33 games, 16 goals, 4 assists
2024-25: 14 games, 7 goals, 1 assist
If Arsenal gets him, he’ll certainly come with a bag full of goals. But they need to beat PSG, Chelsea, Manchester United, and Manchester City to his services.
That said, £58 million for Vlahovic is a reasonable fee, don’t you think so? This could potentially provide the club with additional funds to recruit a left winger or a playmaker, who could further enhance Arsenal’s performance in the final third.
As disappointing as Arsenal’s attack has been, they just have to act in the winter transfer window. With Manchester City faltering and us needing to catch up to Liverpool, the Gunner decision-makers need to show their ambitions with a bold approach to the winter transfer window.
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He’s obviously a good striker, but also a very unpleasant person, and if PSG does get him they’ll have to keep their Ultras from cutting off his fingers.
Best of luck with that Vlahovic.
He already had his chance to join The Arsenal. Let him deal with the Ultras🤣
It could turn out to be like a deal made in heven.
Just what the doctor ordered for Arsenal and the Serbian
Very good player, having turned us down then, would he join us now? At that cost, it is a no brainer to land him and still have the money for a left sided CAM. What happens to Kai? 65M + 14M in wages to warm the bench, I doubt. Maybe his arrival could galvanize Martinelli. The league title is not out of bounds, but Mikel is making it difficult for his players with his selections and tactics. Hope Mikel can see the larger picture and bin his mediocre injury prone players for some serious players
Better than what we have already but I don’t think his stats are particularly impressive.
He’s a good play player, but I don’t think he would offer anything more than what Havertz would offer in my opinion.
33 goals, 7 assists, in 3 full seasons at Juventus.
Average 11 goals, 3 assists per season, for Juventus. Let’s give him the bonus there.
Round of applause, everyone.
For a revered striker!
Quite phenomenal for someone who was brought in to replace Cristiano Ronaldo.
Juventus being “traditionally” a bigger team was too overwhelming for him. So he needs to make a downgrade to Arsenal where he is expected to find his level and score 50+ goals per season
I do think some might come up with the above narrative.
Having reasonable expectations is not a bad idea.
Tell me of a player that has flopped and tell me how / why Vlahovic isn’t one.
Even if Havertz scores 30 goals a season in all competitions for the club – he is going to be labeled a flop by a section of our fan base.
How many goals do we expect will come from Vlahovic?
I just remembered someone said Haaland didn’t score important goals in the EPL, last season.
Will Vlahovic get us 25 unimportant goals in the Premier League?
Important goals may be counted only when Foden scores; so I guess no important goal has been scored in the EPL – so far – this season.
hmmm
Well, at least, Dusan is a striker.
I agree he is.
But will he fill our score sheet with goals?
Guarantees are not easy to come by.
Because it seems the defenders in the Premier League are better than the strikers in almost all the world – except Haaland, and a few others.
Maybe sign us Lewandowski for two seasons’ experiment.
Old man is scoring more goals than young boys.
But is it reasonable expecting Lewandowski?
Money might tell.
G J. – 3 seasons 24 goals in all competitions or 89 games. Wow! Or 15 goals in 66 EPL games in 3 seasons. No wonder we haven’t won anything with him. K.H. – 18 goals in 52 EPL games, is that a terrific prolific striker?
The thing is we could have won some things with them. Might win something still with them.
Liverpool won the 2019/2020 league title with their top striker / center forward – Firminho – scoring nine ( 9 ) goals.
When one declares the reality that these players aren’t quite absolutely fantastic: some dudes feel one should be strangled because those are their favourites.
None under scrutiny will actually pass for being quite prolific; let alone being a terrific prolific striker. The weight of such hyperbolic qualifications might break their shoulder blades.
But it seems K.H is better, and I will pick him ahead of G.J for anything related to scoring goals.
I have observed fellows put so much hype into mediocrity because it is what they are paid to do. And so many others just get enchanted and follow from there.
I think we dodged a bullet, a couple of years back.