What should Arsenal be looking for in transfer targets?

What should Arsenal be looking for in transfer targets?

Ever since the January transfer window opened, Arsenal fans have been waiting for the club to kick into gear and get the reinforcements that the squad desperately needs.

But here we sit, nearly two weeks into the window being open, and there's been little movement on any target for the Gunners with the team in need of fresh faces to ignite its Premier League title challenge, but also to beef up a squad that has injuries, illness and a serious lack of attacking threat.

We have written about it for the best part of a week that the club won't make a signing "just because" with Arteta needing to have a purpose when it comes to buying a player.

Yes, a winger could be signed to replace Bukayo Saka, but when Saka returns, then what happens to said player? Plus, they need to bring quality, not just to be "another body" that will clog up the squad.

But when it comes to what the team is looking for? We'll help the club out. A striker. That's it.

A striker has been a big hole in the Arsenal side this season, and after seeing Newcastle's Alexander Isak give the Gunners defenders fits in a 2-0 win in the Carabao Cup, fans want the Magpies hitman at the Emirates.

Of course, that likely isn't possible in January and might even be harder to do in the summer if Newcastle achieves Champions League football.

But with a clear and desperate need to sign a striker capable of finishing off all the chances the Gunners create, Arteta doesn't think it is a priority.

So we know what type of player Arsenal should be looking for.

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