The Gunners could put a definitive end to their pursuit of strikers.
They’Even though Mikel Arteta’s team was eliminated from Europe by Bayern Munich, they still had the top defense and second-best offensive in the league.ll need to develop the strongest attack in the league, though, if they want to make the last step and win anything next year. Given that the most recent player rumored to be heading to N5 has been compared to Erling Haaland, they have a high chance of succeeding in that endeavor.
Arsenal’s pursuit of a striker
Although Joshua Zirkzee, Santiago Gimenez, and Benjamin Sesko—all of whom Arsenal has been connected to this season—recently declined their advances, it seems that Edu Gaspar and company have not been put off.Victor Osimhen of Napoli wants to join the Premier League this summer, according to a recent Italian rumor, and Arsenal has taken the first step in signing him by getting in touch with his agency. In addition to the Gunners, the source states that Chelsea has cooled their interest in the forward, while Paris Saint-Germain and Saudi Pro League teams are also quite interested.
What Osimhen would bring to Arsenal and his similarities to Haaland First, let’s examine this comparison to Manchester City’s mechanized goal scorer, Haaland. This comes from FBref, which ranks all of the players in Europe’s top five leagues according to their degree of similarity; in the case of the Nigerian, the Norwegian is the ninth most similar striker across the five competitions. The pair’s underlying metrics are what most highlight their similarities, aside from the fact that they are both excellent goal scorers.
For instance, they are fairly close in terms of their goals per shot and on target, shots, shoots on target, projected assists, actual assists, goal-creating activities, and ball recovery metrics per ninety.That being stated, how does José Mourinho’s description of Napoli’s “world-class” number nine compare to the two main strikers for the Gunners, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus?
The former LOSC Lille star has a significantly more outstanding performance over the last two seasons, despite the fact that he scored less goals than he did last season.In just 71 games since the beginning of the previous season, for instance, he has 57 goals and 34 assists, compared to Havertz’s 31 in 98 and Jesus’ 34 in 69.
Ultimately, Arsenal should be making every effort to lure Osimhen to North London this summer, even if it means spending a lot of money to do so, given his significantly superior goal-scoring record than the team’s present options and his favorable parallels to Haaland.
