Mikel Arteta's top transfer priority made clear as Arsenal star drops exit hint

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta has been sent proposal for the January transportation model amid his side's disappointing run arsenic they look to bounce backmost from successive defeats

Mikel Arteta has been urged to marque signing a striker a apical precedence successful the January transportation window.

Kai Havertz is presently starring the enactment for Arsenal, who allowed Eddie Nketiah to articulation Crystal Palace successful the summer. The German has notched 7 goals successful 16 games this season, though the Gunners person scored less goals than each but 1 of the apical 8 successful the Premier League table.

With that successful mind, the competition's grounds scorer Alan Shearer believes Arteta's broadside is crying retired for a goalscoring striker. The Newcastle fable has urged the Gunners to adhd specified a subordinate successful the upcoming January transportation window.

While Shearer praised Havertz for his performances this season, the erstwhile England skipper insisted helium is not a semipermanent solution. Instead, Arteta has been urged to bargain a caller first-choice striker.

"I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen with Kai Havertz this season. I wouldn’t telephone him a accepted centre-forward, he’s what I telephone a ‘modern forward’, versatile and athletic," Shearer told The Athletic.

"But successful presumption of starring the line, bringing radical into the crippled and winning balls successful the air, he’s doing each of those things. It’s been a hard past fewer games for Arsenal. I did accidental that I anticipation for their involvement they motion a centre-forward, but I deliberation he’s done arsenic good arsenic helium could.

"I’ve not changed my presumption since past season. They’ve got Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Jesus successful there, but I’d inactive accidental they request an out-and-out centre-forward. They needed 1 successful the summertime and they inactive bash now."

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Shearer's extremity comes arsenic Gabriel Jesus, presently playing back-up to Havertz, admitted helium is unhappy with his existent relation successful the team. The Brazilian adjacent hinted that helium could look to depart if his game-time does not increase.

“Well, I judge that not lone me, but immoderate player, each players, privation to person much minutes. I’m evidently ne'er going to origin thing successful the club," Jesus said pursuing the decision to Inter Milan.

"I’m going to effort to show connected a regular basis, successful training, and erstwhile I get into the games, person my chance, and bash my happening and spot that things volition happen. I’ve ever made it precise wide that I privation to improve, that I privation to effort to bash my champion and assistance Arsenal.

“Obviously, my infinitesimal is not the best, it’s not the infinitesimal I wanted, that I would like, but arsenic I said, I’m moving connected my own, trying to bash my best, and get much minutes to play, but that’s a effect of my training.

"It’s a effect of the mode I get successful and permission the determination to the coach. I judge successful my potential, and I besides cognize that the combat for my spot successful Arsenal is big, but I besides judge that I tin assistance a lot.”

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