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Forget Ivan Toney. Arsenal have a new, surprise striker in mind…and he’s just £27m!

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Ivan Toney was the talk of the town on Saturday, scoring with his first shot since being suspended some 266 days ago and looking energetic and fit. He played a full 90′ and may have answered most of the questions that have swirled around him since his ban. Yes, he can still score. Yes, he’s match-fit. However, Arsenal’s interest in him may have cooled just a little bit after monitoring an exciting, prolific scorer whose own performance has tongues wagging. Who is this mysterious would-be striker?

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How did Arsenal ever top the table with this misfiring trio?

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Normally, a squad relies on its front three to score the goals. That’s kind of their raison d’être, after all. However, our triumvirate has been far from triumphant on that score (aha…), posting the weakest numbers of any club in the top five (Tottenham’s Son, Richarlison, and Kulusevski clock in with 23 goals…). Our anaemic has been more than an Achilles’ Heel, and if we can’t compensate, we risk consigning ourselves to a squabble for a top-four spot rather than competing for the top spot.

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#ArtetaOut trends as fans seethe over lack of transfer activity!

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1 January 2024. That’s when the winter transfer window opened, and yet, here it is, 3 January, and Arsenal have not signed or even loaned in a single player. After a harrowing run of disappointing, even embarrassing results that has seen the Gunners take just five points from our last five outings, one would think we’d see greater urgency if not ability in addressing the squad’s numerous weaknesses. Shipping goals, not scoring them, getting outplayed and defeated by inferior opponents (a list that seems to get shorter with each passing week…)? No wonder #ArtetaOut is trending on Twitter…or X…or Mastodon…or whichever social media platform du jour is itself trending.

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Which striker should Arsenal target in the wake of the loss to West Ham?

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Bill Walton once said during an NBA game “it doesn’t matter how many shots you make. What matters is how many shots you take!” By that rhyming axiom, we defeated West Ham courtesy of taking 30 shots to their six. However much this might call into question Walton’s intellect or insight, I daresay that scoring twice from six shots is at least occasionally better than scoring none from 30. Maybe the rules of basketball differ from football? In any case, we have wounds to lick after this loss to West Ham.

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Could Arsenal beat Chelsea to snatch Toney from Brentford for just £60m?

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If ever there was an award given for best Photoshop, this ain’t it…

Amid ongoing concerns around Gabriel Jesus’s fitness and Eddie Nketiah’s levels, enquiring minds tend to stray. One of the targets to which they’re drawn, like moths to a flame, is Brentford’s Ivan Toney, scorer of 35 league goals in the last two seasons. That tally might have risen even further but for his 18-month ban for gambling, set to expire in mid-January, and I promise that you that I won’t be making any clever puns on that situation. Suffice it to say that we’ve registered interest and that Brenford must surely be sizing up options.

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