A frustrated Mikel Arteta admitted his Arsenal side lacks ‘goals and options’ in a thinly-veiled plea to the ownership for signings in the January transfer window.
The north London club has long been linked to a number of strikers, with those calls intensifying this month over mixed performances and the injuries to Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus.
The highly-influential Saka is not expected to be back until late March and Jesus is out for months.
That adds to the Gunners’s 2-0 defeat to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg and crashing out of the FA Cup third round on penalties to Manchester United earlier this month.