Arsenal

Hint: Arsenal’s first summer signing?

By soccersweep

Posted on Feb 14, 2015

Everyone knows what Arsenal needs – a new spine. That includes the really top number 9 that the team doesn’t currently have.

Even Arsene Wenger must see it, but he has really dragged his feet on doing something about it hasn’t he?

Anyway, a perfect fit for the top end of the pitch must be Porto sensation Jackson Martinez. He has scored at a ridiculous rate wherever he has played, including 62 league goals in just 80 games for the Portuguese side. It’s a complete mystery why, at 28, he hasn’t already been snapped up by an elite club.

And the Arsenal coach has given a big hint about his desire to bring the lad to England by waxing lyrical about the player in a thinly veiled sales pitch. He is quoted, via The Daily Mail a saying:

‘[He has] top physical strengths,’ Wenger said about Martinez. ‘Hugely efficient, he is the kind of player who can make room for himself in the box.

‘He could play in the Premier League because he has the body to make the difference. He uses it in a very intelligent way. Very short back lift and he’s a very good finisher.’

‘He’s on the list of many clubs, you know that.

Unless there is some kind of weakness in his game, that we aren’t seeing, this guy is one of the closest things in the game to a guarantee of goals. Along with Falcao (at his best) and Cavani, Martinez is up there with the most prolific number 9s in the game and he could be the difference for Arsenal in the tight matches that they often don’t have the teeth to win.

Things are looking up for Arsenal and the signing of an anchor man and top striker could see them seriously challenge for the league next season. Martinez could be one of the final pieces in the jigsaw.

Let’s see him bursting the net. Arsenal fans: what’s not to like?

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