Arsenal’s Wonderkid is nominated for Henry 2.0, but Edu sells him for only £4m

When it comes to Arsenal’s best move forward, there is only one answer: Thierry Henry.

The French magician joined the club in 1999, and along with Arsène Wenger and some other sensational players, helped define the age of British football.

Overall, the former Les Ulis-born phenomenon has scored 228 goals and 96 assists in 37 appearances, although the club has at least a few excellent centers in the years since.

But Arteta is likely to have its own version of Henry, Edu Gaspar and Co on summer dollars that look like a penny young man.

Arsenal’s best striker since Henry

It is fair to say that the years after Henry set out were Robin Van Persie, the first serious and successful striker Arsenal.

The Dutchman may be the role of the Emirates as he moved to Manchester United in 2012, but he was simply unstoppable in his last two campaigns with the club, scoring 22 goals and 7 assists in 33 games in 2010/11/11, before 37 goals and 11 assists in 48 games in the next 48 games.

After a Rotterdam-born poacher, Wenger and Co signed Olivier Giroud from Montpellier for £12m, and although he has never been as prolific as RVP, he does enjoy a reasonable successful career in north London.

For example, in 253 appearances, the World Cup champion scored 105 goals in five and a half seasons, providing 37 assists and winning three FA Cups.

However, in January 2018, the Chambery-born shooter was sold to Chelsea to promote the signing of Dortmund Watermond star Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who has been the Gunners’ best striker since Henry.

Gabon International runs well and becomes the fastest player in club history, reaching 50 Premier League goals in July 2020, before playing a key role in the club record of the 14th FA Cup victory a month later.

But after signing a new bombshell deal in September, the wheel began to stand out, following a boring form and falling with the manager, he was allowed to join Barcelona for free in early 2022.

Since then, Arteta has used the top of Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, and while both players have their own moments, the former has suffered too much damage while the latter still hasn’t done enough to calm the club’s signing of a new striker.

Unfortunately, Arteta may have answered these calls in the players compared to Henry and Edu and Co who didn’t sell him in the summer.

The former Arsenal gem compared to Henry

Now, comparing young forwards to players as talented as Henry can be seen as unfair, but that’s exactly what Suns journalist Jon Boon did with Mika Biereth in July 2021.

It was after Arsenal poached the young talent of Fulham Academy that Boone hinted that he “maybe just the next Thierry Henry.”

While this sounds a bit ridiculous, he does it because, in just 27 games for the Cabinet Youth this season, young Dane scored 22 goals and provided 13 assists, when, since the great Frenchman, no Arsenal striker hit twice the goals and assists until Bukayo Saka did it a few years later.

The youngster will spend the following season with the Gunners’ youth team, and then on the 22/23 campaign he was loaned to Dutch team RKC Waalwijk, but only scored two goals in 12 appearances, which was not a success.

Fortunately, the progress against the young forward last season was much better, as in two spells, first with Motherwell and then Sturm Graz, who scored a great victory of 15 goals and nine assists in 37 games, averaged an average of goals per 1.54 games and was enough to convince the Austrian side to start the move for £4m.

Called “crazy” talent by former goal-scoring journalist Robin Bairner, he left him at the start of the campaign and by January he had scored 14 goals and only 25 appearances, which was 55 assists from Monaco, which was £100.8 million spent on Monaco, plus £1.75 million of young dane.

The outlook for the former Arsenal has grown stronger since moving to the French Riviera and now looks like one of the most formed strikers in European football, scoring 11 goals and providing three assists in 12 games for a total of 860 minutes, with a goal of 1.16 per game, or every 61.42 minutes.

This means player Edu let go in the summer, with only 37 appearances on both teams, which is the level 1 output that Arteta could have used this year.

Ultimately, while the club may feel that Biereth isn’t enough to play for Arsenal in the long run, it’s certainly a wise idea to give him a chance at least this year, as his form in Monaco hints that he’s thriving in the top five leagues.