Ivan Toney is the perfect solution for Arsenal in the January transfer window and Edu has 20 reasons to sign the striker.
Edu and the Arsenal board backed Mikel Arteta in the recent VAR row at Newcastle. Now they may need to save him from himself if Arsenal are to have a chance of winning the Premier League title this season.
They not only have to give him permission,
They need to convince the Spaniard to sign Ivan Toney – dubbed “world class” by his Brentford manager Thomas Frank – in January. The facts of the matter are clear.
Only the very best managers have ever won the Premier League without a 20-goal-a-season striker – and Arteta is simply not there yet.
Arsenal need a new striker next season
Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho and most of those were in the first half of Premier League history.
That would be the entire list of managers who have achieved the feat
If Mo Salah had scored just one more in 2020 when Liverpool won their long-awaited Premier League title thanks to 19 of his goals.
Almost as impressive is the list of those top strikers who have effectively won the title with their goals. Sergio Aguero, Diego Costa, Jamie Vardy, Yaya Toure, Robin van Persie, Dimitar Berbatov, Didier Drogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Dwight Yorke, Alan Shearer and Eric Cantona.
Of course, scoring 20 goals a season is no guarantee of success – just as Harry Kane. But it explains why Arteta will not win the title with Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Jesus vying for position.
The former is in the form of his life with five goals in Arsenal’s opening 12 games,
But that puts him on course for at best 16 goals over the entire campaign.
It is the most open title race for years, but Arteta will need more firepower
If he is to get over the line – the mathematics is there staring him in the face.
