With the news today of Emmanuel Adebayor reportedly been sought by Manchester City, Arsene Wenger may well be on the look out for a new striker.
Yes, Arsenal have many options up front despite the increasing possibility of losing the Togo international.
Robin van Persie, Eduardo Da Silva, Nicklas Bendtner, Andrey Arshavin, Carlos Vela, and Jay Simpson to name but six of his options, however each come with a “but.”
Van Persie is not a leading striker who can guarantee Arsenal 20-plus goals a season.
While Eduardo Da Silva has undoubted talent and could be Arsenal’s answer to the fox-in-the-box striker, it remains to be seen can he fully recover from his horror injury and the knock on effects of that.
Towards the end of last season, Nicklas Bendtner came on leaps and bounds to prove his value to the squad. However, he is still prone to missing sitters and needs perhaps another season or two before he can really began to claim an automatic starting place in the Arsenal.
Although used out on the left wing for the second half of last season, Arshavin’s play is more suited to that of a second striker, causing havoc by floating around in front of the defence.
That leaves the unproven Carlos Vela and Jay Simpson.