Arsenal eyeing move for Noah Okafor

Arsenal are having fun with their best start to a Premier League season ever with the Gunners sitting high of the desk as we head in direction of the World Cup break.

Nonetheless, there may be nonetheless a perception in some circles that high 4 isn’t even a foregone conclusion for Mikel Arteta’s males.

It’s straightforward to see why that is perhaps the case when you think about how they fell aside on the again finish of final season.

Edu didn’t deliver anybody to the Emirates Stadium in January regardless of promoting Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and that preliminary determination got here again to chunk them.

Now difficult for the title, the Brazilian technical director can’t afford to let that occur once more.

Happily, it appears as if Arsenal might be busier within the new yr. They’ve recognized numerous targets from Palmeiras midfielder Danilo, to Orlando Metropolis’s Facundo Torres.

The newest identify on the hearsay mill is that of Noah Okafor.

The RB Salzburg ahead has been linked with a transfer to Leeds and Arsenal by way of reports in Italy and it’s onerous to disclaim he wouldn’t be a great signing.

Simply 22 years of age, the Switzerland worldwide has discovered the again of the web on nine events this time period whereas taking part in a membership infamous for producing a number of the finest round.

The Purple Bull scouting community is exceptional, with the likes of Sadie Mane and Erling Haaland studying their commerce with the Austrian membership.

It’s a superb breeding floor for younger expertise and Okafor is the newest in an illustrious record of names to go by way of their corridors.

A pure centre ahead, the younger Swiss is already doing Haaland-like issues.

His three objectives within the Champions League this season – of which one has come towards Chelsea –  ensures that solely Haaland has scored more for the Purple Bull membership in that completion.

In the meantime, Okafor is the one participant apart from Haaland to attain on every of the first three matchdays of a Champions League marketing campaign for an Austrian membership, and the primary Swiss participant to take action too.

Seemingly blissful to interrupt information, the £25m-valued expertise has been dubbed a “simply phenomenal” expertise by scout Jacek Kulig, and appears to be maturing at simply the precise time.

He’s on for a particular aim haul this season however Arsenal will hope it’s them he’s plying his commerce for come 2023.

Possessing ‘blistering pace’, it’s not simply objectives and their membership historical past that make the 2 alike, with Haaland and Okafor very a lot minimize from the same material relating to their pace.

The comparability in query doesn’t assure that the Salzburg ace will are available in and instantly rating 17 Premier League objectives, nevertheless it does make the attacker an thrilling proposition.

Both method, Arsenal should guarantee they’re on the entrance of the queue to signal him subsequent yr. He may simply be their reply to Manchester Metropolis’s freakish aim machine.