Brobbey

Bring that bitch from Turin and we will cook.

After going down a quick FBRef rabbit hole, I have come to the uneducated conclusion that we need to get Victor Boniface from Leverkusen

Can’t say I agree with this article. He’s comparing us to Liverpool and Man City and suggesting that they have more options on the wing than us, which is just not true. Man city has only one pure winger in Doku, all the other ones are not 1v1 speedsters and arguably Foden and Silva are not wingers at all, as even Pep has mentioned before. Liverpool on the other hand only has Salah and Diaz as pure wingers and their backup is basically Jota and Gakpo, which is very similar to our situation.

I don’t see the point in getting another winger, when we have 5 players who can play those positions, whereas we are very thin in the striker department. And again the discussion about Saka’s playtime, which is becoming really tiring. How often do Salah or Vinicius get rested?

Please no Ivan Toney

Someone like Viktor Gyokeres. A striker who can do something with the ball.

Kylian Mbappe covers both positions lol

I mostly agree with the article:

The issue for me is that Arsenal are a trusted forward short.

There are have 4 and there needs to be 5. Arteta’s hoping Eddie, Reiss or both can be that, but Eddie isn’t hitting the levels and Reiss is barely playing.

A big man seems most logical, but I don’t think we need one. We probably would’ve won the league with Martinelli, Jesus, Saka if we had better depth last year and we’ve seen City and Liverpool perform at record breaking levels without a classic, target man striker

We should get a monster dribbler who can get to the byline and play on the right and left a la Douglas Costa or Ousmane Dembele. This will allow us to play Trossard through the middle more.

Honestly we need superstar quality in attack. A player who can either score 40+ goals or someone who has game breaking qualities like an mbappe.

We need to add that quality at striker or at the 8 position to get to that next level

We can talk about getting the best out of really good forwards, but we need a world class striker. Not someone who will maybe become a world class striker, but someone established and proven who will reliably bang in 20-25 goals in the league (in addition to the goals expected from the rest of the team). Need to be prepared to spend Declan Rice money or more.

If we land that type of player, we will have levelled the playing field.

We need two more.

Another pacey winger type, preferably a Saka backup/rotation, basically a Martinelli but on the other side.

And a true, world class, goal scoring #9.

Easier said than done though, especially for the second one lol.

Big, physical, fast, great header, good with linkup and defensive press duties. I still think hojlund would have cooked with bukayo and Gabi by his side. That pace would have murdered teams.

We can’t afford a striker upgrade in January and discussing potential transfers for summer is pointless at this time.

One that scores would be a start

I don’t think anyone is gonna pay why Brentford are starting off and it seems like an obvious negotiation tactic to start high and raise the lowest possible value.

40/50 is where I’d be fine with