Arsenal wonderkid was tipped to be Henry 2.0, but Edu sold him for just £4m

Regarding the best before Arsenal, there is only one answer: Thierry Henry.

The French magician joined the club in 1999 and, alongside Arsène Wenger and some other sensational players, helped define an era of English football.

In all, the old phenomenon born in the Ulis has accumulated a count of 228 goals and 96 assists In 37 appearances for the Gunners, and although no attacker has been able to replace him for the years, the club had at least a few forefronts.

However, Arteta could have had its own version of Henry, Edu Gaspar and Co had not sold a very classified young person for what is now like money on the dollar in summer.

The best arsenal attackers from Henry

It would be just to say that the first striker seriously succeeded Arsenal had in the years following the departure of Henry Robin Van Persie.

The Dutchman could be Persona Non Grata to the Emirates today because of his transfer to Manchester United in 2012, but during his last two campaigns with the club, he was simply unstoppable, amassing a count of 22 goals and seven assists in 33 games in 2010/11, then 37 goals and 11 assists In 48 games the following year.

After the departure of the poacher born in Rotterdam, Wenger and Co signed Olivier Giroud de Montpellier for only 12 million pounds sterlingAnd although he has never been as prolific as RVP, he has had a reasonably successful career in northern London.

For example, in 253 appearances, in five and a half seasons, the winner of the World Cup marked 105 goals, provided 37 assists And won three FA Cups.

However, in January 2018, the sniper born in Chambéry was sold in Chelsea to facilitate The signature of the Borussia Dortmund star Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who for a certain time was undoubtedly the best striker of the Gunners since Henry.

The Gabonese international managed the field in the race, becoming the fastest player in the history of the club to reach 50 goals in the Premier League in July 2020 and then Play a central role in the club Record 14th FA Cup Triumph A month later.

However, after having signed a new successful agreement in September, the wheels began to stand out, and after a dull form and falls with the manager, he was authorized to join Barcelona for free in early 2022.

Since then, Arteta has used Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz at the top, and although the two players had their moments, the first suffered too many injuries and the second has still not done enough to stifle the calls so that the club signs a new attacker.

Unfortunately, Arteta might have already had her answer to these calls in a player compared to Henry that Edu and the CO did not sell it in summer.

First impressions

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The old jewel of the arsenal compared to Henry

Now compare a young attacker to a player as good by feeling that Henry could be considered unfair, but that was exactly what Sun Jon Boon’s journalist did with Mika Biereth in July 2021.

It was after Arsenal to poach the young talents of the Fulham Academy that Boon suggested that he “could be the next Thierry Henry”.

Although it may seem a little ridiculous, he did it because, in just 27 appearances for the sides of the young people in the previous season, the young Dane had marked 22 goals and provided 13 assistsAnd at that time, no arsenal striker had touched two figures for goals and assists from the big Frenchman, Until Bukayo Saka made a couple Years later.

The young person would spend the following season with The sides of the youth of the artillerymenThen, in the 22/23 campaign, he was sent on loan for the first time to the Dutch team RKC Waalwijk, but with just Two goals in 12 appearancesIt was not a successful passage.

Fortunately, last season went much better for the young attacker, because, through two spells, first with Motherwell then with Sturm Graz, he accumulated a brilliant count of 15 goals and nine assists In 37 appearances, which comes on average from an impact on a target every 1.54 games, and was sufficient to convince the Austrian team to spend 4 million pounds sterling to make its movement permanent.

“Crazy” talent, nicknamed by Former Robin Bairner goal journalistresumed where he had stopped at the start of the campaign and, in January, had already marked 14 goals and provided five assists in just 25 appearances, which tried Monaco to spend 10.8 million pounds sterling plus 1.75 million sterling pounds in additional modules on the young Danes.

Since its move to the French Riviera, the ancient Arsenal perspective has become forcefully and now resembles one of the most formal attackers of European football, marking 11 goals and providing three assists In 12 appearances, totaling 860 minutes, which corresponds to 1.16 goal involvement in each match, or one every 61.42 minutes.

This means that the Edu player dropped the plug for a mouth of bread in summer managed to score 25 goals and provide eight assists in just 37 appearances in two teams, which is a level of production that Arta could have used this year.

In the end, when the club could have felt as if Biereth was not going to be good enough to play for arsenal in the long term, it would surely have been an intelligent idea to have at least given a chance this year, because its form in Monaco suggests that it has what it takes to prosper in a top Five League.

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