According to rumors the Gunners are considering to bring in the 20-year-old Colombian talent Jhon Duran to solve their striker problem. As they are lacking a top quality finisher upfront. It is believed that the London giants failed to grab the silverware in the last two seasons due to that reason.
Arteta’s side were on the top of table for 248 days last season. But at the ending stages they lost their lead to Man City. When they failed to score against Aston Villa in the match week 32 before conceding two late goals. However, they didn’t have their number 9 Gabriel Jesus for the majority of the season. As he suffered from a knee injury and was forced to undergo a surgery.
Kai Havertz, who was brought into the side by Arteta to play in the midfield, had no other choice but to fill up the role of Gabriel. But to everyone’s surprise the former Blues striker have done pretty well so far. Havertz was sold by Chelsea after his failure to provide numbers, but the 25-year-old is shining at his role now.
Since joining the Gunners, Havertz has already 28 goal contributions across all competitions for them. Despite of a poor start as an Arsenal player, he came back well after taking up the number 9 role. And he has continued from where he left. As Havertz has already scored 6 goals across all competitions this season.
Arsenal to bid for Jhon Duran
However, Havertz is not an out and out striker, who will guarantee them 20 plus goals every season. He is a good link-up player with high intelligence, so he can find his space to create opportunities. And that is how he has been scoring so far.
But the Gunners need a poacher, who can find the net and test the opposition goalkeeper throughout the match. Gabriel Jesus was a great signing for them two seasons back for that role. But now due to injuries, Arteta has lost faith in him. The Brazilian got his opportunity last weekend when the gunners were failing to produce opportunities against Bournemouth at the Vitality stadium.
But he failed to do something coming off the bench at the 80th minute. And now It is rumored that the London top flight club is considering to sell the 27-year-old striker. However, to fill up that void in that number 9 role, Arsenal have targeted Aston Villa’s young striker Jhon Duran.
The 20-year-old Colombian prodigy is one of the hottest topics in the world football right now. As he is considered as the best super-sub in recent days. After his match winning goal against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, he has been all over the internet. But Duran has been consistent in scoring since the start of the season. As he has already scored 7 goals for club and country this season and 5 of them were scored coming off the bench.
As per the reports of AS Colombia, alongside Arsenal, Spanish giants Barcelona are also thinking of Jhon Duran as the successor of Robert Lewandowski in near future.
Arsenal in advantage despite of Barca involvement
Jhon Duran has recently signed a contract renewal with Villa that extends his stay till 2030. And it is rumored that Unai Emery’s side could ask for a whooping £70-75 million for the Colombian. And it will be quite difficult for the Catalonian side to approach for Duran for this price. As they haven’t been financially stable recently.
And Arsenal will take full advantage of that, as there is not many competitions for Duran other than Barca. And if they sell Gabriel Jesus next summer it will become more easy for the Gunners to bid for Duran. But Arsenal also have the likes of Viktor Gyökeres and Benjamin Šeško in their list of strikers. Both of them are in red hot form this season and as things stand, the Gunners will not hesitate to pay extra £20-25 million for players like them.
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