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 profitable aim with an outstanding header for Newcastle of their 1-0 win over Mikel Arteta’s aspect on the weekend, and there’s been loads of discuss in regards to the Sweden worldwide being firmly on the north Londoners’ radar.
Isak was praised on commentary throughout that sport for his “completely good” play for that aim, and it’s little shock to see the 25-year-old now being talked about as a prime precedence goal for Arsenal by shops like Group Speak.
Arsenal may certainly do with changing Kai Havertz, or a minimum of having a barely totally different profile of ahead alongside him, and Isak seems to be 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launch of Ladbrokes’ “Gaffer of all Accas”, didn’t title any particular names, however mentioned he’d prefer to see his outdated membership signal somebody who can supply round 25 objectives a season.
“I’ve mentioned it for a few years now: I feel they want an out-and-out striker; I feel 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 instructed us lately. “He can be on the prime of my checklist of recent forwards if he have been to change into out there.”
Arsenal followers will seemingly have just a few different concepts of their minds as properly, with prime strikers like Victor Osimhen, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko additionally trying spectacular in latest instances, although it stays to be seen how lifelike they’d be.
