Mikel Arteta confirms Arsenal’s plans around signing new striker

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta believes in the club’s current strikers but admits that the Gunners have underperformed in front of goal this season.informationguidenigeria

Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Jesus were both chastised following disappointing performances in the recent north London derby stalemate with Tottenham Hotspur, with top scorer Bukayo Saka ultimately coming through once more.

Nketiah has two goals this season, but regular starter Jesus has only one, and Arteta admits his team hasn’t been at their best this season.NYSC Portal

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“There’s various ways to score goals and we are scoring goals,” he said.

“But we should have scored many more with the chances we have created.”JAMB Result

90min understands that Arsenal are open to signing a new striker to add more firepower to their Premier League title push. The Gunners are among the suitors of Brentford’s Ivan Toney, who is also of serious interest to Chelsea.

Arteta, however, did his best to back Jesus and Nketiah and insisted a new signing is not currently under consideration.JAMB Portal

“We’re not thinking at all about that,” Arteta continued. “We have really good players up front. It’s true that right now we have some injuries. We will continue with the players we have.”

Asked whether the idea of a traditional striker was disappearing from football, Arteta did namecheck Toney as proof that out-and-out goalscorers still succeed in the modern game.

“It’s coming back,” Arteta exclaimed.

“There are a few players, when you look at Harry Kane, [Erling] Halaand, Ivan Toney, [Aleksandar] Mitrovic. You have examples of players who score a lot of goals.”

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