By Danong
During the winter transfer window, the consensus was that Arsenal needed to bolster their attack.
While Gabriel and William Saliba's defensive partnership flourished, Timber found his footing at right back, and Nwaneri broke into the team, the attack was the one area needing reinforcement, especially with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus sidelined due to injury.
According to transfer guru reports, Arsenal were offered Ollie Watkins for £60 million, but they didn't agree to the deal (apparently £20 million more than they were willing to spend).
Beyond Watkins, the Gunners held talks with other targets. But one player they did not go for is Randal Kolo Muani.
Muani was desperate to leave PSG, and Juventus were fortunate to sign him. And guess what. Kolo Muani has been on fire:
3 Games, 5 Shots on target, 5 Goals, 100% conversion rate and 2 MOTM awards!
Looking at these stats (which are before Juve vs PSV), you'd easily dub him a "Rolls Royce number 9." A hero in Turin, Muani has become the first player in Serie A history to score 5 goals in his first 3 league matches.
In these 3 games, he's guided Juve to 3 wins. Surely Arsenal could have used such an impactful signing.
But they overlooked the chance to sign Muani and they will probably regret it.
He can play anywhere across the front three, stretch the play with channel runs, drop deep and link up play, carry the ball into dangerous zones, provide final third balls to teammates, and, most importantly, SCORE goals.
The Daily Mail mid-January revealed, "Arsenal were offered Randal Kolo Muani... to fix attacking issues but expensive fees and hefty wage demands scuppered January deals."
Let's hope the Dubai training camp does the trick and Kai Havertz comes back supercharged to guide this Arsenal team to the title.
If not, seeing winter targets like Muani and Watkins shine elsewhere while our attack falters could be frustrating and lead us to question how much Arsenal's decision-makers really wanted a path to glory.
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