Arsenal legend Ian Wright has made it pretty clear that he thinks the Gunners board need to act and help manager Mikel Arteta in the transfer market.
Arsenal lost 2-0 to Newcastle United yesterday in a surprise home defeat in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final, and they now face a mountain to climb to make it into the final of the competition.
Former Arsenal star Wright seems clearly concerned by what he saw at the Emirates Stadium last night, with a lack of fire-power up front clearly costing Arteta’s side.
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Despite some decent possession and chances on the night, Arsenal just didn’t look that threatening up front, with the injury to Bukayo Saka looking like a huge problem.
It’s hard to imagine Arsenal will be able to win trophies this season unless they bring in a new striker or wide-forward this January, and Wright has called on the board to give Arteta the backing he needs.
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“You’ve got to look at the board now. I don’t know what you do but you’ve got to try and so something,” Wright said on ITV’s coverage of the game last night, as quoted by the Daily Mirror.
“He (Arteta) needs help. I know it’s very difficult to get anything in this January window but he needs something else because if it’s gonna carry on like this, it’s gonna be very difficult to score.
“We’re not scoring with the corners, we’re not scoring with the chances we’re making, something needs to change. Something needs to happen.”
Arsenal have some quality players in attack, but it’s also fair to say that Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus are not really the kinds of players likely to score 20-25 goals a season.
Someone like Alexander Isak, who scored the opening goal for Newcastle last night, seems like just the profile of player missing from this Arsenal squad right now.
Arteta got stuffed last night by the centre forward we need badly ,Isak ran rings around our best defendes Saliba & Gabriel how long does it take every one can see it clearly we need to buy Cunha and Isak and another winger to even compete or forget it Arteta forget league ,forget Champions league just another medioca Team
Poor display of football by Arsenal last night. We have said before that Arsenal needs a goal-scorer; with the current squad, we will win nothing.
I was forced to leave our fans platform late last season when I said Arsenal is a scam club. I don’t think e fans see it better and want it more than the players themselves but the board is playing with fans like cat-rat game.
The can post profits but what about the right to brag for fans if season in season out we just see the same failure?
Exactly the time is running we have started to blame Ateta but he have done his own,so the bosses have to help this man to achieved, last season was the same situation as of now we will win nothing without a prolific striker,
For sure Isak is too expensive but they’re some strikes like Velahovic Juventus are now ready sale go for him Nico Williams a winger we need saka is out for a while let us force to do something if not it’s done.
Yes ARSENAL needs a good striker with physical dominance, quick ,creative, competitive and goal efficiency but that said; many strikers will suffer and
SCORE LESS with Arteta’s style of SLOW build ups that
ALLOWS opponents REGROUP & COVER spaces ; Too much INDIRECT horizontal & movements ;lack creativity as a team; they are VERY PREDICTABLE & VERY POOR at SHOOTING! !
Arteta & his crew NEEDS to go BACK to their drawing board as their style has been FOUND OUT ! !
Arsenal have not changed from the Mr.Wenger’s.They still lose where they are expected to win. They hardy shoot on goal. How can you win without shooting on goal?
No striker would do well in Arteta style of play.
To slow in buildup, can’t counter a team, can’t pick their wide players with precise passes and on time to run behind the opponents defence.
Arteta left all his big money summer signings on the bench till d end of the match and prefer to defend when we needed a goal to reduce the deficit.
10 transfers window yet Arteta cant find Saka like for like replacement, no Oodegard replacement.
Harvat just came back from illness and Arteta played him 90 minutes ahead of a more fit Jesus.
Arteta is the reason for most arsenal failure.
He is a baby coach who’s sturboness is destroying the club.
Look at all our players, how can you say have improved under Mikel Arteta?
How many of them are doing better than they were last season? None.
What does that tell you?
It means Arteta has not been able to improve any player under him.
Arteta don’t select his team according to the nature of the game but players he likes.
Arteta needs Arsenal to engineer some more dodgy financial deals to avoid PSR.