When Arsenal gained their first Premier League title below the nice Arsene Wenger in 1997-98, the Gunners’ star trio of Ian Wright, Marc Overmars and Dennis Bergkamp all scored in double figures within the league, with the latter main the league with 16 targets that season.
With six top-flight video games left within the 2025/26 season, Victor Gyokeres (12 video games) is the one participant to guide the league in double figures, far forward of second-placed Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka (6 video games).
Whereas these long-standing issues up entrance might finally matter little for a crew that progresses to the Champions League’s prime 4, Mikel Arteta’s facet nonetheless seem like on the lookout for a brand new attacking spark.
Arsenal – PL prime scorer 25/26 | |
|---|---|
participant | the objective |
Gokeres | 12 |
Eze | 6 |
of | 6 |
Zubimendi | 5 |
Trossard | 5 |
rice | 4 |
merino | 4 |
wooden | 3 |
Gabriel | 3 |
These hectic days for Bergkamp et al appear a great distance off, given the north London facet’s present struggles with their ahead line-up, with work underway to make sure they make progress in that division forward of subsequent season.
Arsenal have already began work on a £104m improve deal
Mikel Merino, who has been sidelined since January, has scored extra league targets this season than the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Noni Madueke, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli, a damning indictment of the underachieving quartet.
Signing a brand new winger appears to be a precedence for everybody, with reviews earlier this week suggesting Anthony Gordon is a possible goal, with the Englishman mentioned to be extra considering transferring to London than another metropolis.
Newcastle United’s curiosity within the fugitive has additionally been confirmed by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, however the revered insider has additionally offered perception into additional targets being thought of.
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Talking throughout a Q&A, Ornstein hinted that work has already begun on a possible summer time transfer, saying it was “clear” that Arsenal needed to signal a brand new ahead.
Ornstein insisted there was nothing concrete but, however admitted Atletico Madrid’s Julián Alvarez is without doubt one of the Gunners’ favourite gamers for “some time”.
When it comes to cash, it was beforehand reported that Alvarez, who moved to Spain from Manchester Metropolis in a deal value £64.4m in 2024, may obtain a switch price of round £104m.
Julian Alvarez may grow to be Arsenal’s modern-day Bergkamp
It have to be mentioned that a number of Premier League champion Josep Guardiola is not too far flawed, however the Metropolis supervisor has let fairly a couple of superstars out of objective lately, together with Cole Palmer, Morgan Rodgers and, after all, Alvarez.
The World Cup winner spent simply over two years on the Etihad after becoming a member of from River Plate in January 2022, scoring 55 targets and helping in simply 103 video games, serving to the membership win the treble in 2022/23.
Alvarez needed to take care of the presence of Erling Haaland forward of him within the centre-forward pecking order, however was nonetheless capable of impress in quite a lot of roles and ended his ultimate season on the membership with double figures for each targets and assists within the Premier League.
That got here regardless of hardly beginning out as a full-fledged striker and as an alternative blossoming from Haaland’s bodily core, particularly regardless of Arsenal legend Martin Keown evaluating him to the aforementioned Bergkamp on the time.
“He jogs my memory of Bergkamp as a result of he began as a striker and simply wandered into that (midfield) place, so that you surprise who’s going to choose him up.”
As Keown hinted, the 26-year-old is nearly inconceivable to include and pin down, as was evident throughout Diego Simeone’s time as supervisor.
In as many video games as he performed for Metropolis, Álvarez has already scored 47 targets and offered 17 assists, and in 122 video games again in Argentina he has additionally recorded 85 objective involvements. Like Bergkamp, he’s a objective scorer within the No. 9 slot in addition to a creator.
Prolific wherever he’s, the 51-capped worldwide has been notably deadly within the Championship this season, scoring a most of 9 targets in 13 video games forward of his subsequent sport in opposition to the Gunners.
Three of these video games had been within the final 16 in opposition to Arsenal’s north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, and served as a reminder of the injury Arsenal can do in opposition to their Premier League opponents.
Because the modern-day Bergkamp is a ahead who is not locked into a transparent function, Alvarez seems to be like the right summer time signing so far as Arsenal are involved, even when he comes with a hefty switch price.
As Argentine journalist Pablo Gonzalez as soon as identified, within the ultimate third he’s merely a “monster”.
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