IIRC according to Arteta's recent comments he wants a CF who is:
- a genuine goal threat who scores as being the #1 priority;
- has to have the right personality; and
- works for the team.
As such that suggests that scoring goals is the priority, which then would tend to eliminate a number of players/options we have been linked to as they are/have not been prolific in front of goal this season, which may indicate a consistency issue and/or they are still under development.
Then there are those who would seem to fail to meet the last criteria, in so much as they do not provide many assists as CF (although this is not the definitive means to judge their team play).
TBH thinking about those criteria the AFC players who comes to mind as a template would be the likes of TH and RVP as CF who also provide assists, and then DB10 and Fabregas as AMCs who also score. The key points being DB10 played with a prolific forward ahead of him in TH, whilst RVP had a goal scoring AMC behind him. Currently our CF is more DB10 in his numbers, but we don't have a prolific scorer ahead of him.
Haaland has started to include assists in the last 2 seasons, whilst Lewandowski is still the measure in UEFA in terms of Golden Boot. If we are convinced Balogun/Martinelli is/are the future of our attack as becoming our main goal scorers, I'd be tempted to sign Lewandowski for his quality in the area and as a potential role model whist our players still develop. He can also provide a great deal of experience and particularly in the UCL.
That said I still have a sneaky suspicion we'll try to make Everton an offer they can't refuse re DC-L for a knock down price. Even without relegation they need to generate revenue to replace the commercial funding from Usmanov.
