Arteta must drop the Arsenal star who is “the best finisher on the club”

After Arsenal spent nearly 300 million pounds sterling in the transfer window, the experts made no excuse for the Mikel Arteta team.

Despite a difficult session of opening of matches, they were told in uncertain terms that this season, they simply had to win the title of the Premier League.

Although the expectations are undoubtedly high, they must always overcome the challenge of Manchester City of Pep Guardiola and a team of Liverpool which, by signing Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak, had broken the transfer record twice in a summer.

Despite these circumstances, the Gunners are at the top of a point before the international break in October.

It was a very impressive beginning until 2025/26, and although they signed a plethora of new attackers, it is their solid defensive record that they must thank once again.

After seven weeks, they have the best defensive record and conceded a single open all Campaign goal; This strike by Erling Haaland against City a few weeks ago. Quite fair, really, few have kept Norwegian silence lately.

How Arsenal’s defense can carry them as

He is sure to say that the defense of Arsenal has traveled a long way since Artata took the reins of the Emirates stadium.

The first match of the Spanish in charge saw the Gunners going to Bournemouth the day after Christmas in 2019. A 1-1 draw was played in which Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang saved a point for visitors to Stade Vitality.

A marker of the Arsenal climb is the fact that Bukayo Saka started on the left rear that day. Since then, he has become the poster for the Arteta project, playing in his 200th match for the club on Saturday.

He is sure to say that the bottom line has changed considerably. Of these dreary days of Sokratis, David Luiz, Shkodran Mustafi and Rob Holding, in William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes, the quality has skyrocketed.

To be a defensive shore, the Northern Londoners only have the best defense in England, but probably in the top five leagues in Europe.

In Saliba, they have a defender Rolls-Royce, a player who, in the words of Leandro Trossard, is “one of the best in the world at the moment”.

In Gabriel, they have a colossus. It is not as calm as Saliba, but that is why the duo is completed so well. The Brazilian is a titan and his objective record sums up this perfectly.

Even when one of them is injured, Arsenal was able to face well. When Gabriel underwent his hamstiff injury during the second half of last season, Jakub Kiwior intensified, notably keeping a white sheet against Real Madrid.

This term, with Saliba missing a few games due to her own injury problems, the new mosquera of 13 million pounds sterling was exceptional, praised by some as the “summer signature” of the club, such is the business price they paid.

Combined with David Raya, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori, Arsenal only scored three goals in the championship in seven matches. In the Champions League, they conceded any. It is a waterproof defense.

Now, however, they need a little more help from the attackers.

How Arteta can improve the line before Arsenal

It was blindly obvious what was the main problem for Arsenal last season; They did not score enough goals.

There were a number of reasons for this, mainly the fact that Saka and Kai Havertz missed large parts of the campaign by an injury.

However, once everything has been said and made, for the first time since the 1923/24 season, an arsenal player failed to double figures on a league campaign.

Thus, during the summer, Andrea Berta and Co invested massively in improving the attack. Viktor Gyokerres, the scorer of 54 goals in 2024/25 arrived, while Noni Madueke and Ebelechi Eze also arrived to strengthen the avant-garde ranks.

Despite this, it always seems that there is a missing link in the attack. Whether it is the left side of Arsenal or the chemistry built with Gyokerres, there are some problems.

The great Swedish Arsenal improves Game by Game and Arteta seems to be satisfied with his performances, but ultimately, he will be judged on goals and he does not find the net regularly.

After scoring against Nottingham Forest in the fourth match week of the season, he did not beat the goalkeeper in his last six games. In fact, through the last ten outputs of the attacker in all competitions, he only marked once.

However, it is not the biggest problem. As it was last season, the main problem was the left flank.

That said, certain circumstances have dictated what they can and cannot do in this field on the ground.

Madueke, now injured, played there against Manchester United and Leeds while Enge presented it against Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Athletic Club.

Since then, he has been preferred in a more central role and this will probably continue after the new setback of Martin Odegaard’s injury.

As such, despite an improved form for Gabriel Martinelli, Arteta turned to Trossard. The Belgian has had a very good servant since his arrival from Brighton, especially 17 times during the 2023/24 campaign. Only Saka found the net more regularly that year.

However, his powers decrease and he finished last year with only ten goals in all competitions of more than 50 games.

The striker scored great goals in Arsenal Red. To some, including a content creator on X, He is “the best finisher on the club”. Certainly, some of his objectives throughout his career in the capital explained why this is the case.

This 2023/24 season saw the 30 -year -old net against Chelsea, when he also scored against Manchester United, Liverpool and found vital strikes in the Champions League against Porto and Bayern Munich.

To tell the truth, Trossard is a clutch player, but he is not a player in 2025/26 on which Arteta should count to start regular games.

His involvement in the last three games shows why. Last weekend against Newcastle, he created only one key pass and was unusually wasted in front of the goal, hitting the position in first half when he should have reached the target at least.

The Belgian international has once again wasted in the middle of the week against Olympiacos, missing what was considered two “big chances”.

Then, against West Ham on Sunday, his influence was again limited. Reduced to two blocked shots and a single precise crossing of six attempts, he lost possession 16 times and only finished one dribbling. The men of Nuno Santo played with a deep block but Trossard only looks like the weak link of this front line.

Thus, as much as this Arsenal team must find a way to draw more gyokerres, too, they must find solutions on the left side. It could well start by dropping TROSSARD after the international break.