Arsenal: 10-step summer plan to solve team

Sign Jonathan David

Of course, should Arsenal sell both Aubameyang and Lacazette and then invest £90 million in central midfield plus another £30 million a centre-back, that does not leave much money to invest in a replacement for their attacking stars. However, with Gabriel Martinelli, Eddie Nketiah, Reiss Nelson and Bukayo Saka all ready for more minutes and Nicolas Pepe expected to kick on at right-wing, serious investment might not be as necessary as some believe, especially if other areas of the squad have been bolstered as they have here.

As such, adding another young, high-ceiling attacker who can play across the front line would provide Mikel Arteta with a versatile, exciting, vibrant young group of strikers and wingers who can interchange throughout the season and collectively deal with the Aubameyang-Lacazette absence. Enter Jonathan David, a 20-year-old Canadian international who is the top goalscorer in the Juniper Pro League.

David has 18 goals and eight assists in 2,101 minutes this season. That converts to a direct goal involvement every 80.8 minutes. To put that into context, Aubameyang has been directly involved in a goal every 128.05 minutes. He has played in attacking midfield, as a centre-forward, or even out wide, and is renowned for his dribbling, acceleration, and movement off the ball, ideal for the inverted left-wing role that Aubameyang has inhabited. With David, Martinelli, and Nketiah, Arsenal would have three versatile, young, pacy, exciting attacking players to rotate between.