Piers Morgan tells Arsenal to make signing in January to stay in title race

Arsenal fan Piers Morgan believes Mikel Arteta must sign a striker in January to maintain a Premier League title challenge. The TV presenter believes Brentford’s Ivan Toney would be an ideal candidate to become the Gunners’ new frontman.

Arsenal are unbeaten six games into the new season. However, they are already four points behind Manchester City, who have had a perfect start to the campaign.

Arteta’s side have dropped points at home to both Fulham and north London rivals Tottenham. Eddie Nketiah has just one goal in five starts this term, with his other strike coming as a substitute, while Gabriel Jesus also has just one goal to his name.

Toney is currently serving his eight-month suspension for breaches of The FA’s betting rules. He is back training with Brentford and can play again on January 16 of next year.

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Morgan believes a striker is a necessity for Arsenal. And he reckons Toney would be a perfect candidate for the role.

He told talkSPORT: “I think that in January we have to go and get Ivan Toney or someone like him because we need a proper striker. Every Arsenal fan knows this and I think we’ve been kidding ourselves for too long that we can exist without one and the truth is that we can’t.”

Arsenal spent over £210million on new signings in the summer. Kai Havertz has had a tough start to life at the Emirates following his £65m move from London rivals Chelsea.

Morgan joked Arsenal should sell the German in order to raise funds for a striker. He cannot understand why Gunners chiefs did not attempt to buy a forward with the money they spent on Havertz.

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He added: “We could sell Kai Havertz and get our £70m back! People ask me what I would have done and what I’d have done is gone to Napoli and given £150m for [Victor] Osimhen and everyone goes ‘That’s nuts’, but we just spent nearly half of that on Havertz who looks like he isn’t anywhere near the standard we need to win the league. The thinking, to me, is very small-time thinking.

“We went and got Declan Rice, brilliant. We have some great players in that team like [William] Saliba was purring again yesterday, [Martin] Odegaard when he’s on form is fantastic and we’ve really missed [Gabriel] Martinelli.

“We’ve got a lot of great players, but if you don’t have a proper striker then you’re not going to win the league. I’m sorry, because Arsenal fans may not want to hear this but it’s the reality, but if we’re serious we’ve got to go out in January and get one.”

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