PPersonal terms agreed ✅: Arsenal ultimately won the contest against Manchester City to recruit a £60 million striker, and the player accepted a wage cut to join Arsenal because of financial fair play.
Arsenal seems to have identified a potential solution to their goal-scoring woes for the upcoming summer, focusing on acquiring a striker who can make a significant impact in Mikel Arteta’s squad. The current season has highlighted the inefficiency of the Gabriel Jesus and Eddie Nketiah pairing, as their collective performance, while commendable in most games, lacks the ruthless goal-scoring instinct required.
This persistent issue has led to the realization that Arteta’s team might be caught in a repetitive cycle, placing unwavering trust in the duo only to discover a noticeable deficiency. Despite the individual skills of both players, the resemblance between them is striking, resulting in a lack of discernible difference when one substitutes the other. Given Gabriel Jesus’s perceived superiority, there is speculation that Nketiah might be offloaded in the summer to pave the way for Arsenal to secure a new striker.
Recent reports from Italian outlet La Gazzetta dello Sport suggest that Joshua Zirkzee is the identified striker who could bring about the desired change. According to the publication’s page 17 in the printed version, Arsenal is reportedly willing to allocate €50 million (£43 million) to secure Zirkzee’s services in the upcoming summer transfer window.
