Mikel Arteta and Alexander Isak (Picture 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 wanting the perfect candidate.
Isak scored the successful purpose with an outstanding header for Newcastle of their 1-0 win over Mikel Arteta’s facet on the weekend, and there’s been loads of speak concerning 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 purpose, 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 Staff Discuss.
Arsenal may absolutely do with changing Kai Havertz, or no less than having a barely completely different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak appears 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the launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t title any particular names, however stated he’d wish to see his outdated membership signal somebody who can supply round 25 objectives a season.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 objectives,” Lansbury stated.
“Who that’s? I don’t know. It’s a troublesome one. They want somebody who’ll assure them 25 objectives a season.”
Isak is unquestionably the proper candidate, as our columnist Charles Watts has stated.
“I’ve all the time stated that Alexander Isak is ideal for Arsenal,” Watts instructed us not too long ago. “He could be on the high of my checklist of recent forwards if he had been to change into accessible.”
Arsenal followers will probably have a number of different concepts of their minds as properly, with high strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally wanting spectacular in current occasions, although it stays to be seen how real looking they’d be.
