When Arsenal claimed their first Premier League title underneath the good Arsene Wenger again in 1997/98, the Gunners’ star trio of Ian Wright, Marc Overmars and Dennis Bergkamp all hit double figures for league objectives, the latter man main the way in which with 16 that season.
In 2025/26, and with simply six top-flight video games remaining, solely Viktor Gyokeres (12) has damaged double figures for the league leaders, method forward of Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka in second (six).
Such long-standing woes within the ahead line might finally matter little for a facet additionally into the final 4 of the Champions League, but Mikel Arteta‘s males seem like crying out for a brand new attacking spark.
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Arsenal – High PL scorers 25/26 |
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Participant |
Targets |
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Gyokeres |
12 |
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Eze |
6 |
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Saka |
6 |
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Zubimendi |
5 |
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Trossard |
5 |
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Rice |
4 |
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Merino |
4 |
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Timber |
3 |
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Gabriel |
3 |
These heady days of Bergkamp and co seem a great distance off, contemplating the struggles of the north London facet’s present pool of forwards, with work underway to make sure progress is made in that division forward of subsequent season.
Arsenal have already begun work over signing £104m improve
Mikel Merino, sidelined since January, has nonetheless scored extra league objectives this season than the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Noni Madueke, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli, a damning indictment on that misfiring quartet.
A brand new winger seems to be the precedence by all accounts, with experiences earlier this week having advised that Anthony Gordon is a number one goal, with the Englishman mentioned to be favouring a transfer to London above every other metropolis.
That curiosity within the wantaway Newcastle United man has additionally been corroborated by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, albeit with the revered insider additionally offering an perception into additional targets being thought-about.
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Talking in a Q and A, Ornstein advised that work has already begun on potential summer time strikes, with it mentioned to be “clear” that Arsenal need to signal a brand new ahead.
Whereas he didn’t declare that something is concrete as but, Ornstein did verify that Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez is amongst people who the Gunners have favored “for some time”.
By way of a price ticket, it has beforehand been reported that Alvarez may fetch a charge within the area of £104m, having made the transfer to Spain from Manchester Metropolis on a £64.4m deal again in 2024.
Julian Alvarez might be the modern-day Bergkamp at Arsenal
Pep Guardiola, a a number of Premier League winner, would not get a lot fallacious, it should be mentioned, though the Metropolis boss has let a good few superstars slip via the web lately, be it Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers and, in fact, 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 and helping 55 objectives in simply 103 video games, whereas a part of the membership’s treble success in 2022/23.
Alvarez needed to cope with the presence of Erling Haaland forward of him within the centre-forward pecking order, but nonetheless managed to impress in a spread roles, ending his last marketing campaign on the membership by reaching double figures for each objectives and assists within the Premier League.
That got here regardless of hardly ever beginning as an out-and-out striker, as an alternative flourishing off the bodily point of interest of Haaland, with Arsenal legend Martin Keown notably making the comparability to the aforementioned Bergkamp on the time.
“He jogs my memory of Bergkamp as a result of he begins as a striker and he simply kind of wanders into that [midfield] place, and also you’re questioning who’s going to select him up.”
As Keown alluded to, the 26-year-old is nearly not possible to comprise and pin down, as has been evident throughout his time underneath Diego Simeone’s watch.
In as many video games as he performed in for Metropolis, Alvarez already has 47 objectives and 17 assists, having additionally racked up 85 purpose involvements in his 122 video games again in Argentina. Very similar to Bergkamp, he’s simply as a lot a creator as he’s a goalscorer in that quantity 9 berth.
Prolific wherever he is been, the 51-cap worldwide has been notably deadly on this season’s Championship, as much as 9 objectives in 13 video games, forward of the upcoming conflict with the Gunners.
Three of these got here in opposition to Arsenal’s north London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, within the last-16, with that serving as a reminder of the harm that he can inflict up in opposition to Premier League opposition.
The fashionable-day Bergkamp, as a ahead who is not pigeonholed into one clear function, Alvarez – even when he prices a sizeable charge – appears like the right summer time signing so far as Arsenal are involved.
As famous beforehand by Argentine journalist Pablo Gonzalez, he is merely a “monster” within the last third.
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