Two Premier League icons have revealed what Arsenal players really should think about the failure of the club to sign a top striker.
The side of Mikel Arteta has passed a hugely disappointing season in the competition, because they are now very likely to be the title by Rivals Liverpool. The Gunners took a step back in many ways, and failed to build on their strong second place in the previous term and lifted the trophy for the first time in two decades.
A large part of their struggles this season is due to a lack of firepower in advance, which has only become clearer since four of their most important attackers – Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz – suffer injuries after Christmas.
Arteta and former sports director Edu Gaspar signed no striker last summer, despite the fact that the position was a clear weakness in the team, because they were not launched in Newcastle's Alexander Isak and RB Leipzig no. 9 Benjamin Sesko. And despite the preference of Arteta to bring in Aston Villa star Ollie Watkins during the January window as a way to stimulate the team's title, the board chose to save their money for the coming summer after seeing an £ 60 million bid.
Now that the title of Arsenal apparently dead in the water hopes, the Gunners will have to make do with the limited options they have prior to a blockbuster Champions League quarterfinals collision with Real Madrid-Hun some remaining shot on silverware. And former Sunderland -striker Kevin Phillips – winner of the Golden Boot of the Premier League's Golden Boot from 1999/00 with 30 goals – claims that the current Arsenal players in their despair have been abandoned for Arteta to strengthen the team with a clinical striker.
Phillips, who was an Arsenal supporter who grew up in nearby Stevenage, said on the Seaman says podcast, you put you through Betway: “We ask the same question every day. Also an Arsenal fan are – why you don't go out and just spatted the money and put that center forward.
“Because you do that – someone like an Isak or an Ollie Watkins, born goal scorers and that is all they live for – and Arsenal has the right chance to win the competition. So I am sure it will be tackled in the summer. I hope it does. “
Discussing how the Arsenal players will feel behind the scenes, he added: “We have been in changing rooms where a manager makes a signature and you are” oh, yes!! That gives everyone a buzz.
Legendary Manchester United attacker Dwight Yorke shares Phillips' sentiment and adds Sesko's name to Isak and Watkins as strikers that the Gunners could have benefited enormously.
Yorke believes that the stars of Arsenal were “empty” in January due to their lack of forward signing sessions, which led to a series of poor results.
He told Casinobeats.com: “I think it was clear to anyone who looked that Arsenal really had to ratify their team with a big name investigation, a big personality that comes to the club to really give the place a lift, because that can be enough to get you over the line. In January, February, March, it is when the season is real testing and you have to be on full pelt to get through those phases.
“I feel that when you look at what happened in the transfer window in Arsenal, that it has been so disappointing for them that even the players are empty. The supporters have now deflated. I think it results from that, and it can be seen in their versions.
“It's a stranger. I just think that Arsenal should have really been on a limb to try to get someone. I looked at Benjamin Sesko and he is also a good player. I think he and Isak are the two players I would have tried to sign to give you a kind of momentum that takes the last phase of the season. “
Arteta is expected to correct the mistakes of Arsenal this summer and could very well try to sign one of the three above players, while other names such as Victor Osimhen, Jonathan David and Dusan Vlahovic are also connected to the North Londers.
The upcoming arrival of the former sports director of Atletico Madrid, Andrea Berta, is also expected to give a huge boost in their transfer processes.
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