Mikel Arteta bemoans lack of 'real quality up front' for Arsenal in Alexander Isak transfer plea

Mikel Arteta owns praised Newcastle United demonstrator Alexander Isak for his performance in Tuesday’s Carabao Mug semi-last at the Emirates.

Isak scored and owned an initiative rebounded in by Anthony Gordon to aid Newcastle gain a majestic 2-0 productivity away to Collection on Tuesday night.

He was given Player of the Match as the Magpies won their seventh suit in a row.

Collection, meanwhile, have a mountain to climb in the second leg at St James’ Park on February 5.

They dabbled Eddie Howe’s side, Isak and Gordon at the worst time with every person at Newcastle full of steadiness, and the Swedish demonstrator did not dissatisfy with his performance.

He owns been awfully attached with Collection for over a year and was reportedly a send target before he authorized upward with Newcastle from Spanish side Real Sociedad.

It is asserted that the Geordies will most distinctly standoffish commission emphasis to offers in the territory of £150million, which would most distinctly reprieve the British send record.

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His “real attribute upward front” can be what renders the discrepance for Collection in their pursuit for the Premier League title and Arteta owns admitted that his “terribly medical” layer is a discrepance-machine.

“He was involved in both aims, unfortunately the 2 times that he owned the ball in the box and that’s what you have once you have the real attribute upward front,” he told press reporters after the Carabao Mug loss.

“They can render the discrepance. They’re terribly medical.”

Isak would most distinctly yes be an superb signing for Collection yet there is most distinctly no opportunity they reprieve the economic institution for him in January.

The Gunners have seriously been told to reprieve the economic institution for the ex-Sociedad superstar. The latest former player to perform so is Paul Merson.

He asserted last week: “If I was Collection and I owned the greenback money, I would most distinctly go and buy Alexander Isak. I would most distinctly reprieve the economic institution for him.

“I reckon he is the remarkable of the remarkable. I reckon he takes Collection to another level. I am peeking at the with one voice-round image and next season also.

“I reckon that if they can avail grasp of Isak, that I reckon is the remarkable in the enterprises at the minute, I reckon that will most distinctly be a considerable stroke of genius for Collection. The means Collection dabble, I would most distinctly have to go with Alexander Isak [over Erling Haaland].

“They have got innumerable construct-upward dabble and they pine the forwards to join in.”

Isak owned most distinctly no top priority suiting to the Carabao Mug suit ball, dissimilar the Collection pounce.

“We kicked innumerable spheres over the pub, and it’s stealthy that these spheres fly a digit so there’s precisions that we can perform much more detailed,” Gunners supervisor Arteta asserted after the loss.

“Yet at the run out that’s gone – there’s most distinctly no means back, it’s around the next video game and that’s our universes, the fact is our universes.”