Shock twist: Arsenal race for £85m star who’d be their best CF since Aubameyang
It’s been an interesting summer for Arsenal so far this year, as while Mikel Arteta’s side looked good in preseason and kicked off their Premier League campaign with a convincing 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers, there is still some trepidation among the fanbase.
The reason why? A lack of business in the transfer market. So far, the only new addition to the first-team squad has been Riccardo Calafiori, and while Mikel Merino looks like a nailed-on deal, the club haven’t added to the frontline.
The North Londoners ended last season with five goals fewer than Manchester City, and so there is an understandable level of concern among supporters that if Edu Gaspar and Co do not add to the attack in the next eight days, they’ll have to make do with second place for a third year on the bounce.
Fortunately, reports suggest that the club are now looking to bring in a new striker, someone who would be their best forward since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Arsenal’s striker search
According to a recent report from Italian publication Corriere dello Sport, Arsenal have rejoined the race for Napoli striker Victor Osimhen.
The report claims that after looking for attacking reinforcements elsewhere, notably in Lisbon, the Gunners have returned to the fray and are once again interested in signing the Nigerian star, but not at the original €130m – £110m – price that the Neapolitan club demanded previously.
The good news is that according to the story, the I Partenopei are now open to letting their goalscoring machine leave for closer to €100m, which converts to the much more reasonable sum of £85m.
It would still require a significant investment from Arsenal to get this transfer over the line, but given Osimhen’s quality, it would be worth it, especially as he could become their best striker since Aubameyang.
Why Osimhen could be Arsenal’s next Aubameyang
Now, while we believe that Osimhen has the ability and potential to become Arsenal’s next Aubameyang, we mean in the sense that he’d be a game-changing goalscoring machine for the Gunners, not that he’d flame out of the club and leave under a dark cloud.
