The failure of the arsenal of recruiting January reinforcements seems to be more wrong for the week after the news of the injury of the Kai Hartz season.
The German international started his hamstrock During the Gunners’ warm climate training field in Dubai and will be set aside for the rest of the campaign. In addition, aggravating the relentless problems of Mikel Arteta, the 25 -year -old has joined the front companions Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka in the treatment room.
With Hartz and Jesus do not return before the end of the 2024/25 season, Arsenal He now has a crisis in his hands. They will have no orthodox attacker available to the rest of the campaign, with only Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and Ethan Nwaneri currently available on the line.
With the winter window that has happened, Arsenal will be forced to promote youth or resort to the free agents market to solve their problems. The latter could be a genuine option for artillers affected by injuries, who are not in a position to be demanding about emergency coverage.
Here are six free agents that Arsenal could sign to relieve their problems.
Wissam Ben Yedder aroused a reputation as one of the most prolific punctures in League 1 during his spell in Monaco. He scored 118 times in 201 appearances for the Principality before his contract expired last summer.
However, since then, a prison sentence has been delivered two years after being found guilty of sexual assault in November 2024. Signing the 34 -year -old would be a very controversial decision.
It is difficult to believe that Maxi Gomez is without a club with only 28 years after the powerful Uruguayan striker, which has 32 appearances in the national team under the belt, was proposed by the star after an impressive stage in Celta Vigo.
He scored 30 goals in two seasons with the Spanish side before a change in Valencia, where his goal numbers dropped significantly. Gómez found the net 23 times between three complete campaigns before moving to Trabzonspor in Turkey, with a loan spell for a year in Cadiz the last term that was unsuccessful, as he reached the 33 appearances in the club.
The fact that Gomez failed to score a single goal last season is alarming, but the voluminous striker could be useful for providing Arsenal a central point up.
Mariano Diaz was another great success in Spanish football after leaving Real Madrid Castilla. After scoring 32 times in 44 appearances in reserves, he was promoted to the senior squad and managed five goals in 14 appearances in 2016/17.
An immensely successful season was on loan to Lyon, the Dominican Republic International, marked 21 times, but he could never cut a name for Santiago Bernabeu on his return to Madrid. Diaz finally left for Seville permanently in 2023/24, where he failed to score in only 13 appearances.
The 31 -year -old has been without a club since then and would not be an inspirational addition to Arsenal supporters, even if he showed a competent deputy sometimes during his spell with Madrid.
Well, that would be tasty, right?
Diego Costa, before the fame of Chelsea, has been helpless since the end of the last calendar year, recently representing Botafogo and Guild in Brazil. Of course, he also returned to England with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2022/23, once in 25 departures with the old gold.
The burning nature of the coast and the imposing physicist always claims that it is a good handful for the central opposition centers, but now he is a player who is almost not recognized of his days of glory with Chelsea. He has marked a few during his South American trajectory, but the inefficiency of 36 years in Molineux talks about volumes.
Lucas Pérez is a family name for Arsenal supporters. Espanyol came out briefly for the Gunners, making only 21 appearances and scoring seven during their year with the club. A spell in a similar way with West Ham United was followed by a return to Spain and, more recently, Deportivo La Coruna, where he had originally named his name.
The 36 -year -old young man played the second division Spaniards as recently as January, scoring four goals and providing so many assists during the first half of 2024/25. However, he left earlier this year for personal reasons.
Carlos Vela is another old man in the arsenal. The 35 -year -old man made 59 appearances on the Gunners after reaching North London as a very valued perspective of Mexico at the beginning of his career, but discovered his Mojo for five years with Real Sociedad.
Vela left San Sebastian in the United States in 2018 when he joined LAFC in MLS. He prospered with the club, scoring 93 times in 188 appearances for them, playing as an end and striker during his time in North America.
However, a return to the Emirates stadium seems very unlikely.
