{"id":835119,"date":"2026-09-03T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835119\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:16:12","slug":"arsenal-transfer-window-are-the-gunners-taking-a-risk-in-not-signing-a-world-class-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835119\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal transfer window: Are the Gunners taking a risk in not signing a world class forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no denying that Arsenal<\/a> wanted a game-changing attacker this summer – if there was one available. <\/p>\n

Not signing one this window does leave them with the chance to act again in January or wait completely until next summer to try to bring in a new forward. <\/p>\n

But there will be uncomfortable conversations about why there hasn’t been one during this window, even if the football leadership team are content with the business the club has done. <\/p>\n

Questions will of course be asked of Arteta, Berta and co-chair Josh Kroenke as to why, after Arsenal<\/a>‘s success, such an attractive club weren’t able to get one of their targets over the line. <\/p>\n

However, there is no denying that Arsenal<\/a>‘s squad is one of the best in Europe. Their bench for the win over Aston Villa<\/a> contained nine full internationals with two of those – Merino and Zubimendi – World Cup winners. <\/p>\n

Gabriel Jesus has moved to Barcelona for \u00a312.8m, and although he was not an integral part of Arsenal<\/a>‘s team because of selection and fitness issues, he still made 27 appearances in all competitions, scoring six goals. <\/p>\n

With Martinelli and Trossard both gone, there will be more opportunity for Eberechi Eze to play from the left wing, a position he shone in at former club Crystal Palace<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Eze played in some of the biggest games of Arsenal<\/a>‘s last campaign on the left wing and put in an impressive appearance in that role in the win over Villa on Monday too. <\/p>\n

Last season, Kai Havertz missed large parts of the campaign with injury, while Mikel Merino, another option to play at striker, missed a chunk of the season too but both have started this season fully fit. <\/p>\n

Those injuries last season meant that Gyokeres had to lead the line for long periods without back-up in his first campaign with Arsenal<\/a>, but despite that test, it does not take away that the Swedish international’s suitability is still in question. <\/p>\n

It is also intriguing that Gyokeres has not played a minute of the opening two Premier League matches so far. <\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> are still looking like the early season favourites and have the potential to defend their title, but criticism surrounding the lack of a new forward will be tough to avoid if goals start to become hard to come by. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no denying that Arsenal wanted a game-changing attacker this summer – if there was one available.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-835119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}