For two years now, Arsenal have been linked with French international Houssem Aouar and they are set to miss out again. More recently, they were linked with Emiliano Buendia from Norwich but missed out. They’ve been linked with Inter’s Lautaro Martinez, but Tottenham seems more likely to land the forward. Arsenal have been linked with James Maddison and that too doesn’t look promising.
All this, as the team is really screaming for additions in attack. Well some creative midfielder’s addition would have worked as well, but the window for that seems to be shut for now, and it is going to be the same problems for Arsenal.
At the close of last season, it was crystal clear, Arsenal needed investment in attack, but as the new season approaches, the club hasn’t made any attacking signings, and none seems to be in the pipeline. Instead, the Gunners have added to their defence and defensive midfield, with Ben White arriving from Brighton, Nuno Tavares from Benfica and Sambi Lokonga from Anderlecht.
Worse, Arsenal lost one of their best creative players in Martin Odegaard, whose loan from Real Madrid expired, while Dani Ceballos, who was also on loan from Real has already left. It leaves the Gunners really short on the attacking front, but the club hierarchy elected to just focus of defence, despite being among the best defensive teams last season.
Skipper Pierre Emerick Aubameyang hasn’t turned up since signing a big money extension and his performance last season bordered on a don’t-care attitude. His preseason performance hasn’t done much to inspire optimism going to the new campaign and another dismal season is easily predictable.
The Gunners suffered last season by overly relying on youngsters Emile Smith-Rowe (21) and Bukayo Saka (19) to an extent the two suffered burnouts. There’s really little indication that will change this season and another poor season reckons.
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Meanwhile, Alexander Lacazette enters the final year of his contract and not much consideration is being put in that, at least publicly and their top scorer last season may be glad to see out his deal and walk. The Frenchman has all the motivation to fight for another good season and up his value in the market, with the possibility of leaving on a Bossman.
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Fact is Arsenal have dragged their feet in addressing issues that bedeviled them in the past seasons and the lack of additions in attack is more glaring than the fact they have deadwood at the team across all departments.
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