How can Arsenal proceed after Kai Havertz blow?

Arsenal lost Kai Havertz for the rest of the season thanks to a hamstring injury, leaving the Gunners rudderless in attack.

Whoever has that Arsenal voodoo doll must be doing some serious overtime as, yet another injury has hit the Gunners, and this one at the worst position possible - up front.

Kai Havertz, who had often been deployed up top by Mikel Arteta, suffered a season-ending hamstring injury in Dubai, leaving Arsenal with no fit striker with a ton of football left to be played in the season.

Fire this season into the sun.

So, exactly where Arsenal goes from here is unknown, and Arteta might have to look internally as any player brought from outside of the club will almost certainly end in ridicule for the Gunners given not a soul came through the doors in January despite every person on the planet knowing a forward was needed.

For ESPN's Sam Tighe, there are two options for Arteta, and in truth, neither are too appealing.

"Arteta could turn to another forward and ask them to play a heavily adapted role," Tighe wrote. "Leandro Trossard fits the bill for a "false No. 9" role in theory, while Thomas Tuchel once pinpointed Raheem Sterling as an ideal No. 9 for his Chelsea side, so there might be something in that. None of these moves would address the issue of Arsenal losing a squad member for the rest of the season, though, with part of the thought process of potentially signing a free agent being that they simply need bodies to cope with the game load. So if no market opportunity presents itself, what do Arsenal have to call upon from within?"

Hmm, Trossard or Sterling. That doesn't get anyone excited.

But unfortunately, that is the corner Arsenal has backed itself into with the lack of investment in the squad in January, and now it appears the club is paying the ultimate price for not bringing in bodies to help the squad.

Now, with 14 league games and Champions League games to come, the Gunners will be not have a proper striker in any of them, which if we are being truthful, is rather laughable.

But that is the bed Arsenal made in January. Now, it must lay in it.

With so many injuries throughout the season, the Gunners have failed to overcome it due to the sheer number of them, and even when a chance presented itself, they failed to act.

And now they are paying the ultimate price.

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