Emirates Stadium side ready to spend big to beef up Gunners attack.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger appears very keen on strengthening his Gunners attack with a number of sources claiming the Frenchman is ready to spend big in pursuit of support for in-form forward Olivier Giroud.
The Metro claim that the North London club are ready to make a £43m bid for Real Madrid marksman Karim Benzema who is known to be a long term Wenger target and is certainly a player who could be offloaded by Carlo Ancelotti in January.
The 25 year old has suffered a fair amount of abuse from the Bernabeu faithful this term and has had an up and down time of it ever since moving from Lyon to the Spanish giants back in 2009. Thus far this term two goals in eight La Liga fixtures is a return that may well mean Benzema’s future at Real Madrid is even more tenuous and a move to the Emirates Stadium may well tempt the French international.
The Daily Mirror believe that Arsenal will fight Man City in a chase to sign £25m rated Robert Lewandowski with the Pole likely to leave the Bundesliga side sooner rather than later.
The powerful striker will be out of contract in the summer and as such Jurgen Klopp’s side could well consider big money offers in January to prevent the possibility of losing Lewandowski on a free transfer at the end of the season and any offer that comes from a side other than domestic rivals Bayern Munich may well be gladly accepted.
Dortmund saw youngster Mario Gotze join the Allianz Arena side and will not want to further strengthen their rival’s squad by handing them arguably the Bundesliga’s best forward.
Lewandowski has been in fine form since moving from Lech Poznan to Dortmund back in the summer of 2010, scoring 84 goals in 148 appearances for the Westfalenstadion side.
The lack of out and out striking options available to Wenger, especially with the Arsenal manager seeing Theo Walcott and Lukas Podolski as predominantly wide attacking options, has led to Dane Nicklas Bendtner being called up to offer back-up for Giroud.
Arsenal could well do with investing this area and if the club are still riding high in the Premier League and Champions League by the time the January transfer window re-opens then there is every chance that either of these targets would be open to a move to join the Gunners.