Don Pacifico Nunez is already on our books. Didn't you watch the Villa game?

Alabe and Zubi sound locked in

lorddulaarsenal yup. If Alabe can invite Isak over for BBQ, he won’t need to do another deal ever again in his life.

TambourineMan has the whiff of Liverpool trying to replace Salah on it.

TambourineMan Never going to happen but I'd love us to sign him as our creative attacking midfielder along with a promising CF, starter level LW and Zubimendi. That would be a perfect summer in my book.

Think he will end up at Chelsea/Spurs/Liverpool.

Panda has Chelsea written all over him.

Claudius "ELO adjusted" sounds like that's just been a substantial multiplier to Ekiteke's stats across the board? That can be misleading for sure.

Burnwinter What's Jeff Lynne got to do with anything?

RocktheCasbah I mean it might be slightly more confidence-boosting than a "Travelling Wilburys adjusted" player ratings system ...

Many complain that we don't get the young developing players often enough. I think this is a guy at the right stage. He's not yet established but he has displayed enough to suggest that his floor will be okay but there is scope for incredible upside.
I have a longer list of attacking talents, in this order. Number 1 and 2 would be highly dependent on things going wrong for their respective clubs.

Primary targets

1. Isak
2. Rodrygo (7 goals and 5 assists in 2025)
3. Ekitike
4. Sesko
5. Williams
6. Barcola

Fall backs

1. Cunha
2. Martinez
3. Thuram
4. Watkins
5. Osimhen
6. Samu Aghehowa
7. Gyokeres

Claudius not sure if this necessarily tracks. Saw a similar story about Balogun back in the day, claiming that his early career stats/ trajectory put him in line to be the next Harry Kane...

Also, speaking of Rodrygo, the most talented (and one of the "insane") player at Real Madrid, the guy has never cracked 20 goal + assists contributions in the Spanish league his whole career. And somehow he's a galactico? I think this season is likely to end up as his most productive, and even at that his numbers are not popping or making me look sideways with envy. He's a decent player but I'd be pretty disappointed if we went out and spent real money on the likes of him. He's no Benzema.

flobaba

I am gonna disagree with you on this one. For me, he would be a clear and massive upgrade on someone like Martinelli. I would spend a good amount of money on him if we could realistically get him, but it will never happen. His numbers may not be eye popping, but watching him play shows me that he is a really really good player.

Regardless of who we sign Arteta will need to reinvent his attacking style slightly. We need to be able to play at a higher tempo at will but it feels like we just don't have that in us. Today's performance was very deflating. I thought we would be all over West Ham.

Rohit we just need two fast players. So we can break on teams once in a while. Speed is an absent quality

Shooting ability is lacking just as much

And with our most athletic forwards all gone, there is no press to speak of.
It’s a cluster all around

Indeed it is. I seriously worry we may drop out of the top four. That’d be catastrophic.

Anyways, as much as I love Arteta, if in doesn’t invest sensibly and appropriately in the attack this summer and we have another season like last season and what this one is shaping up to be I’ll be questioning if he’s the man for the job for the first time since he took over.

lorddulaarsenal

Arteta is 100% clear that he needs more strikers every window. It's someone else's job to sign them and someone else's role to provide the funds. The balls not being dropped in artetas court.