Arsenal plan £123m move for ‘one of the best talents in the world’

For the primary time in a very long time, if not the primary time in historical past, there’s a robust argument being made that Arsenal are presently the most effective workforce on the planet.

Mikel Arteta’s aspect are prime of the Premier League and in addition prime of the Champions League following Wednesday evening’s 3-1 win over Bayern Munich.

Nonetheless, this unimaginable run might not be shocking. That is as a result of the membership has constructed a squad filled with world-class expertise, but their most essential participant, Bukayo Saka, is but to seek out his greatest type.

The Hail Ender is a complete game-changer at his greatest, so followers ought to be very excited by experiences that Arsenal are being linked with one other attacking monster who shall be in comparison with him.

Arsenal eyeing one other Saka-style star

With the winter switch window quickly approaching, Arsenal are beginning to be linked with a variety of gifted gamers.

For instance, Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton is linked with a £100m transfer to the Emirates, whereas Porto’s Sam Agehowa can also be linked with a £79m transfer.

Nonetheless, whereas each of those brightly gifted gamers would enhance the Gunners’ squad, neither of them might be in comparison with Saka, not like Michael Oliseh.

Sure, Arsenal at the moment are one of many few groups planning to signal the Bayern Munich monster subsequent yr, in keeping with latest experiences from Spain.

Along with the north Londoner, Liverpool and Manchester United are additionally reportedly within the France worldwide, who has been nothing wanting world-class since his transfer to Germany.

Nonetheless, along with fierce competitors, the Gunners must shell out an enormous payment of as much as €140m to signal the participant, which equates to round £123m.

That stated, it could be an costly and sophisticated switch to recover from the road, however Olise’s immense potential and similarities to Saka make him one of many gamers Arsenal ought to be in competition for.

Comparability of Olise and Saka

One of the crucial essential comparisons between Saka and Olise comes from FBref, which ranks the Englishman because the eighth most comparable attacking midfielder or winger to the Frenchman throughout Europe’s prime 5 leagues.

The easiest way to know how this conclusion was reached is to take a look at the underlying numbers that rank the pairs intently.

On this instance, metrics embody anticipated targets with out penalties, progressive carries, shot-producing actions, and profitable take-on price, throughout 90 factors.

Along with these statistical similarities, they’re each thought-about two of the most effective gamers of the 2 large golf equipment.

However whereas it is nice that the previous Crystal Palace star can draw comparisons to the Gunners’ talismanic quantity seven, there are different explanation why the North Londoners ought to contemplate signing him.

For instance, though he did not rating on Wednesday evening, the 23-year-old has performed in 19 video games this season, totaling 1,538 minutes and has 9 targets and 10 assists.

This interprets right into a sensational common of a purpose concerned in each recreation, or each 80.94 minutes, and absolutely justifies Oliver Glasner’s earlier declare that he’s “probably the greatest abilities on the planet.”

However the 13-cap worldwide hasn’t solely excelled this yr, he was simply as harmful final yr.

He performed 55 video games in all competitions and was concerned in 43 targets in a complete of 3842 minutes, which implies on common he was concerned in a single purpose each 1.27 video games, or one purpose each 89.34 minutes.

Arsenal ought to do the whole lot of their energy to signal Olise subsequent yr, although it’ll finally value him an arm and a leg. As a result of, like Saka already, he has the potential to be an actual recreation changer.