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Owen Hargreaves has claimed that Arsenal need to sign a new striker and a new left-back following their 2-0 defeat to West Ham.

‘Every guy on that list is a beautiful football player,’ Hargreaves told Premier League Productions when discussing the Gunners’ attacking options.

“The difference between, you know, the goalcorers sometimes aren’t really great football players, you couldn’t say Haaland’s technically a brilliant football player but he’s a brilliant finisher.

“And I think Arsenal they’ve got all these brilliant football players, all they need is somebody just put the ball in the back in the back of the net.

“Be in between the lines, that that last chance from Jesus, and I love him, he has to score, he just has to score. I just think he just has to head it back back the other way and I think it’s a pretty easy finish for a guy like Haaland or Lewandowski.

“I just think when Arteta can look at that game, 74 per cent possession, 30 shots, they did more than enough to get something from the game.

“But looking at that, I think you need a different option now, just a bigger guy that when a team sits in you can cross in and he can go and head it. Their biggest chances came from headers, you can’t have everybody that’s 5’9″, 5’10”.

“Sometimes you need a focal point, they missed Havertz, he would’ve been in there in the box getting on the end of some of those headers.

“I actually thought Declan [Rice] played really well. He’s barely put a foot wrong in an Arsenal shirt, if anything they need more people like Declan with that mentality to keep pushing.

“I feel like they’ve got a lot of brilliant football players, but they probably just need another one or two, a centre-forward and a left-back, they could do with a couple in that Declan mould.”