Mikel Arteta and Alexander Isak (Photograph by Alex Pantling, Ian MacNicol/Getty Photos)
Former Arsenal midfielder Henri Lansbury has urged the Gunners to signal a 25-goal-a-season striker, with Alexander Isak trying the best candidate.
Isak scored the successful aim with an excellent header for Newcastle of their 1-0 win over Mikel Arteta’s facet on the weekend, and there’s been loads of discuss concerning the Sweden worldwide being firmly on the north Londoners’ radar.
Isak was praised on commentary throughout that sport for his “completely sensible” play for that aim, and it’s little shock to see the 25-year-old now being talked about as a high precedence goal for Arsenal by shops like Crew Discuss.
Arsenal may certainly do with changing Kai Havertz, or no less than having a barely totally different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak appears like he matches the invoice.
Arsenal want a 25-goal-a-season striker
Lansbury, talking on the launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t identify any particular names, however mentioned he’d wish to see his previous membership signal somebody who can supply round 25 objectives a season.
“I’ve mentioned 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 objectives,” Lansbury mentioned.
“Who that’s? I don’t know. It’s a tricky one. They want somebody who’ll assure them 25 objectives a season.”
Isak is definitely the proper candidate, as our columnist Charles Watts has mentioned.
“I’ve all the time mentioned that Alexander Isak is ideal for Arsenal,” Watts advised us lately. “He could be on the high of my listing of recent forwards if he have been to change into obtainable.”
Arsenal followers will seemingly have a couple of different concepts of their minds as nicely, with high strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally trying spectacular in latest occasions, although it stays to be seen how practical they’d be.
