Accidents have decimated Arsenal’s entrance line and all of the discuss is about in the summertime.
However there are nonetheless 11 Premier League video games and a Champions League marketing campaign to navigate first.
Arteta has tried Leandro Trossard up entrance, experimented with Mikel Merino and seen Raheem Sterling battle in his cameo roles. So who else is left?
Most likely the most probably is Nathan Butler-Oyedeji, the 22-year-old who made his debut within the dying ebbs of January’s Champions League win over Dinamo Zagreb.
Deployed primarily on the left but in addition at centre-forward, Butler-Oyedeji has 20 targets in 60 video games for Arsenal Beneath-21s and has been on the bench for seven of the previous eight Premier League video games.
Arteta has but to show to him nonetheless, regardless of the Gunners’ determined want for targets in current matches – however he could should.
Accompanying Butler-Oyedeji within the dugout on the Metropolis Floor on Wednesday night time was 19-year-old Ismeal Kabia, a Dutch winger who solely has eight begins in Premier League 2.
He made his first-team bow towards Bolton within the Carabao Cup earlier this season and did rating at Leyton Orient within the EFL Trophy too. Nevertheless, he actually wouldn’t match the profile of a central striker.
Maybe Jamaica striker Khayon Edwards is value a go. High scorer in Premier League 2, he has 9 targets in 12 video games this season together with six in his previous seven.
At the very least the 21-year-old is aware of the place the again of the online is, though his mortgage spell at Leyton Orient final season the place he solely began 4 video games yielded no targets and no assists.
Followers could possibly be forgiven for wistfully Chido Obi-Martin who swapped Arsenal Beneath-18s for earlier this season after smashing 32 targets in 21 video games for the academy facet and has already made two senior appearances for the Crimson Devils.
No resolution is ideal however successive blanks towards West Ham and Nottingham Forest show one thing must be executed.
And, in any case, the success of Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri this season has showcased the expertise in Arsenal’s academy. Can Arteta discover one other one?
