Arsenal got here into the January switch window understanding that recruits had been a necessity, reasonably than a luxurious.
Bukayo Saka’s long-term hamstring harm meant that they wanted to bolster their ahead line and that was solely exacerbated when Gabriel Jesus was stretchered off with an ACL harm towards Manchester United within the FA Cup.
Alas, with per week remaining within the switch window, Mikel Arteta‘s aspect are but to conclude any enterprise regardless of a bunch of names being linked with a transfer.
Who Arsenal may signal this January
Title a striker and he is in all probability been linked with Arsenal this month. That is a reasonably simple sport, is not it?
Okay, we’ll identify some for you. Probably the most distinguished, in fact, has been Newcastle’s Alexander Isak however with a £150m asking price slapped upon him any transfer now or in the summertime feels fairly unlikely.
Wolves’ Matheus Cunha has also been on the radar of Arteta and Co. He would not really feel like a precedence goal however with the Brazilian stalling on whether or not to signal a brand new contract at Molineux, appears extra attainable than others.
After which there’s Benjamin Sesko, the RB Leipzig ahead with scary potential. He already “picked” Arsenal back in the summertime earlier than signing a brand new cope with the Bundesliga membership and if he does finally depart Germany, the Gunners are doubtless in pole place to seal a transfer.
But, Arsenal space additionally seeking to bolster their midfield and will achieve this in the summertime with Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi.
He is not the one midfielder linked with a transfer to the Emirates Stadium. David Ornstein revealed on Friday that the Gunners are ‘working’ on a move for Rosenborg’s 18-year-old wonderkid Sverre Nypan.
It has been additional reported by journalist Graeme Bailey that Arsenal are ‘assured’ they will beat Manchester United and Manchester Metropolis to the signing of the proficient teenage midfielder.
So, what’s Nypan all about, we hear you ask?
What Sverre Nypan may provide to Arsenal
A inventive midfield making makes at first-team stage in Norway instantly evokes reminiscences of Martin Odegaard’s early profession.
Certainly, Nypan has been in coaching with Rosenborg’s first-team because the age of 14 and though he didn’t displace the Arsenal skipper because the teen participant in Norwegian top-flight historical past, the progress of each gamers is eerily related.
So are their playstyles, reality be advised. Blessed with the flexibility to create targets, in addition to rating them, as a spritely teen, Nypan scored eight and assisted six throughout the 2024 Eliteserien season so he is already making an affect at first-team stage.
Whereas the inevitable comparisons between Odegaard and the Rosenborg starlet will proceed for a lot of his profession, we need to have a look at similarities to a sure Mesut Ozil.
Like Nypan, the German burst onto the scene at a younger age and after a stunning World Cup in South Africa in 2010 aged 21, he moved to Actual Madrid.
Ozil, among the best quantity 10s because the flip of the millennium had unbelievable approach and was praised for his ‘good understanding of the place and when to ship the ball’ throughout that match 15 years in the past by The Guardian’s Kevin McCarra. He would not be the primary nor the final to single out the German for such wizardry on the ball.
In the words of the BBC’s Jonathan Stevenson throughout that aforementioned World Cup, it was famous that ‘he possesses neither the electrical flip of tempo of Messi nor the deadly ending within the closing third’,
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Mesut Ozil’s profession by membership |
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|---|---|---|---|
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Membership |
Video games |
Objectives |
Assists |
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Arsenal |
254 |
44 |
74 |
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Actual Madrid |
159 |
27 |
81 |
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Werder Bremen |
108 |
16 |
54 |
|
Schalke |
39 |
1 |
5 |
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Fenerbahce |
37 |
9 |
3 |
|
Basaksehir |
7 |
0 |
0 |
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Stats by way of Transfermarkt. |
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As a substitute, this was a affected person participant. He wasn’t explosive however he knew when to time the go, he knew precisely the precise second to burst ahead and carry the ball. He knew tips on how to discover a teammate.
That is a bit like Nypan who with the assistance of information analyst Ben Mattinson, we will start to see the place the similarities lie. Nypan is a “intelligent ball manipulator” Mattinson says. “He’s not explosive however good in how he turns and delays touches to make the defender commit and ‘repair’ them, then flip previous them simply.”
Additionally mentioned to be a “pass-first controller of play” and possess a “devastating final ball”, that is exactly what Ozil prided himself on in his prime. The German scored targets however his preliminary mantra was all the time to pick the help and supply goalscoring alternatives for others.
Mattinson continued: “Utilizing physique feints and intelligent drops of the shoulder allow Nypan to show previous gamers”. That was definitely one other high quality Ozil used with nice regularity to get the higher of his markers.
After all, Arsenal’s first thought have to be so as to add targets to their aspect however when an elite potential expertise like Nypan comes alongside and you may signal him, it is a tough proposition to refuse.
The considered {the teenager} enjoying alongside the likes of fellow children Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly sooner or later is an thrilling one.
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