It's taken a while but, at last, Mikel Arteta has realised he needs a new striker if Arsenal are to win the Premier League – and the man he wanted to fire them to it was Ollie Watkins.
Mail Sport broke the news that Arsenal had made a late swoop for the Aston Villa striker, one instantly rebuffed, and it now looks increasingly unlikely they will get their man now that team-mate Jhon Duran has moved to Saudi Arabia.
Gabriel Jesus, the club's only out-and-out striker, will be side lined for the foreseeable future with a knee injury and Bukayo Saka is alongside him with a thigh problem so it's easy to see why Arteta might want some reinforcements.