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Arsenal Need a Striker Thi Summer But With Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko Mrs. Berta’s Crosshairs, He’s Also Directing Attention Towards A New Winger.
Real Madrid’s Rodrygo has been A name regularly linked With Emirates Stadium Switch this Summer But Whether That Move Happens Remains to Be Seen.
One Deal That Is Certainly Unlikely To Happen This Summer Is Nico WilliamsWith The Spaniard Now reportedly in the closing in His Dream Barcelona Move.
Why Arsenal Will Need a Nico Williams Alternative
After a Sublime Campaign 2024 Last Summer, Williams has been the talk of the Town with His Club, Athletic Bilbao, Even Heralding Him as “One of The Best Wingers in The World”.
That is CeraTainly The Case and It Explas Why Arsenal Have a Found Negotiating Deal Difficult.
Last Winter, It was a Reported ThatRteta Was Dreaming of Signing The Spain International But at no point has a Deal Ever Looked Close.
Indeed, Fresh Despite Interest This Summer, It Looks Though The Attacker is Heading to Barcelona.
The Latest Was Provided by The Athletic’s David Ornstein On Tuesday Morning Who Claims That Both The Gunners And Chelsea Have ‘Cooled’ Their Interest In The 22-Year-Old As ‘Barcelona Step Up Pursuit & Bayern Munich Consider.’
Barca Want To Do A Deal and Have Air Heart to Contract Offer to The Young Winger.
So, with that Move off the table, Where will the Arsenal’s Attention Turn Next? PERHAPS Anthony Gordon?
According to A Report From The AthleticArteta and Co. Had Three Names in Particular On Their Shortlist to Improve Their Ranks in The Wide Positions.
Williams Was One of Them, Rodrygo Is The Other and The Final name is Newcastle United’s Gordon.
Arsenal Even Known to Be Long-Term Fans Of The England International, That Report Noting That He is’ Of The North Londoners and That They Are ‘Admirers’ of His Qualities.
Why Gordon Could Be Even Better Than Nico Williams
You’re Don’t Attract The Barca Without Being Mighty Fine Player and In Williams, You Have Spain’s Next Hope Bounty Lamine Yamal on The Opposite Flank.
Williams Certainly Isn’t Exciting As Yamal But HE’s Still One of the Most Promising Young Forts on The European Scene.
Howver, His Numbers Haven’t actually too Impressive in Recent Seasons. During 2023/24, The Bilbao Star Scored Just Eight Times in All Competitions. Impressively, He Did Register As many as 18 Assists.
This Season, HE Scored 11 Goals While Registering Seven Assists in 45 Games with Five Goals in Laliga Action.
In Comparison, Gordon’s Numbers Arenworldly But they are on Par and He’s Already Producing It in the Premier League.
The 24-year-old Scored Nine Times and Posted Seven Assists in 42 Outings During 2024/25, What Wasn’t Quite AS Impressive As His Return The Campaign Prior. In What Was The Best Season of His Career, The Former Everton Man Scored 12 And Assisted 16 Goals.
So, Over the Last Two Years, There Isn’t A Huge Amount to Separate Them, But What Do The Other Numbers Say?
Gordon vs Williams Since 2023/24 (League Only) | ||
|---|---|---|
Stat (per 90 mins) | Gordon | Williams |
Goals | 0.29 | 0.21 |
Assists | 0.21 | 0.34 |
Shots | 2.31 | 2.33 |
Key Passes | 1.82 | 1.84 |
Progressive Passes | 3.36 | 2.85 |
Successful take-ons | 1.55 | 3.26 |
Progressive Carries | 4.38 | 5.52 |
Stats Via Fbref. | ||
Well, Again There’t Isn’t Much to Separate Them. Williams is more carry-heavy, but IF arsenal Looking for goals, and they are even, “unbelievable” Gordon – In the Words of Teammate Bruno Guimaraes – Is The Better Option.
A carry is considered to the ball is moved towards the Opponent’s Goal at Least 10 Yards From Starting Point or Carried Into The Penalty Area.
Over The Last Few Seasons, Arsenal Have Simply Too Reliant On The Right Flank To Come Up With The Goods. In 2023/24, He was the top club’s top scorer with GOALS AND THIS SEASON, HE was right up again with Hamstring Half Of The Campaign.
He Ended the campaign on 12 goalsJust Leading Leading Marksman Kai Haverntz. AS for Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard, they suffered from Long Periods of Inconsistency Throughout The Campaign.
The Latter Scored Ten in 56, Once Every 5.6 Games, While The Former Scored Ten in 51, ONCE EVERY 5.1 outings. AS for Gordon, He Scored Once Every Four Matches Two Seasons ago and Once Every 4.6 Appearances in 2024/25.
So, With Arteta Clearly Goals for The Lookout, Gordon Could Just Be The Man Need This Summer. It’s Just A Pity He Boasts An Asking Price Of Around £ 100m. That certainly Makes It Lykely to Happen.
