Arsenal’s Arteta eager to bolster attacking options in January window

Manager says the nine are looking for a caller striker to bolster their Premier League rubric bid.

Manager Mikel Arteta says helium is consulting his Arsenal players implicit caller signings arsenic the nine scramble to bring successful a striker earlier the January transportation model closes.

Serious injuries to forwards Gabriel Jesus and Bukayo Saka person added to concerns implicit the Gunners’ deficiency of goal-scoring menace arsenic they effort to drawback Premier League leaders Liverpool.

Arsenal are the lone nine successful the Premier League’s apical six without a scorer successful treble figures. Kai Havertz is their highest scorer with 8 goals successful the apical formation this season.

Gunners brag Arteta was asked connected Friday astir the request for reinforcements up of his side’s travel to struggling Wolves connected Saturday. “We mislaid 2 very, precise important players, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus, truthful we deficiency goals, we deficiency people, we deficiency options successful the beforehand line. It’s clear,” helium said.

“If we tin get the close player, that’s what we are actively looking at. Any player? No – idiosyncratic that makes america amended and has an interaction successful the team.”

Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka, centre, was injured astatine Crystal Palace, wherever helium was comforted by Gabriel Jesus, right, who has since joined him connected the sidelines [Alex Pantling/Getty Images]

With the transportation model shutting astatine 23:00 GMT connected February 3, Arteta added: “Ideally we request immoderate assistance due to the fact that we were precise abbreviated already and we’re adjacent shorter. But the squad inactive copes with that. We person to bash what is close for the club.”

The Spaniard said helium consults his players connected imaginable signings due to the fact that they are often capable to springiness him invaluable accusation that builds connected machine data.

“So however has this subordinate acted erstwhile helium hasn’t scored for six oregon 7 games? This is what I’m funny in,” helium said. “Watch an interrogation with a subordinate who hasn’t scored for six games, past what kinds of goals has helium scored, against which teams, successful what contexts.

“Is it the archetypal half, the 2nd half? Is it lone close foot. Is it headers? Always lone successful unfastened spaces? Does helium similar the carnal interaction of this league? There are a batch of things, truthful erstwhile you person a subordinate that has spent a batch of days with him, that’s truly invaluable accusation to have. I ever bash it.”

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Arteta believes Arsenal, who person finished arsenic runners-up to Manchester City for the past 2 seasons, are realistic rubric challengers to Liverpool, who are six points wide astatine the apical with a crippled successful hand.

Last weekend, Arne Slot’s broadside scored 2 goals successful stoppage clip to bushed Brentford while Arsenal blew a 2-0 pb successful their gully against Aston Villa.

“The margins are really, truly small,” Arteta said. “You could spot however things could person gone past weekend, and the turning points are minimal, and the spread surely looks precise different.

“We person to beryllium astatine it. We person to bash what’s successful our hands, and there’s inactive a long, agelong mode to go.”

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