Next season is going to be a massive one for Arsenal.

After finishing second for the third campaign on the bounce last season, Mikel Arteta’s side will be desperate to finally get their hands on the Premier League title.

It would appear as if the board are just as desperate, as the last couple of weeks have seen the transfer rumours really heating up, with perhaps the most exciting of the lot being the links to Eberechi Eze.

Moreover, recent reports have now made it clear who Arsenal’s number one attacking target is, and it’s someone the Crystal Palace star will love playing alongside, someone other than Viktor Gyokeres.

Arsenal’s striker search

While Arsenal need to address several areas in the team this summer, and appear to be doing so, it’s not controversial to say that the most critical business they’ll do is signing a new striker.

It would appear that the club agrees with that statement as well, as, over the last few weeks, they have been linked with a plethora of talented number nines.

Closer to home, there have been suggestions they could go back in for Ollie Watkins after missing out on him in the winter window.

However, another forward who has been even more heavily touted for a move to the Emirates has been Gyokeres.

The Sporting CP ace has reportedly agreed to personal terms with the North Londoners, but that may end up being for nothing, as the club’s number one target is someone else entirely.

At least that’s according to a recent report from TEAMtalk, which reaffirms Arsenal’s intense interest in Benjamin Sesko.

The report has revealed that RB Leipzig’s ace is their top striker target, although due to the German club demanding £80m and the North Londoners being unwilling to go above £60m, they have set a timeline to sign him by mid-July.

It will be a complicated and costly transfer to get over the line, but Sesko would be worth fighting for and an incredible teammate for Eze.

Why Eze will love Sesko

While there are a few different reasons why Eze would love playing with Sesko, the most significant one is his output.

For example, despite still being just 21 years old at the start of last season, the Slovenian international scored an impressive 21 goals and provided six assists, in 45 appearances, totalling just 3258 minutes.

That means the “exceptional” talent, as dubbed by respected analyst Ben Mattinson, averaged a goal involvement every 1.66 games or every 120.66 minutes, which is only made more impressive by the fact that the rest of the team underperformed compared to prior years.

Just imagine how much more effective the Palace star would be either playing behind or alongside a striker as dangerous as that, especially as he racked up 25 goal involvements in 43 games last season playing with Jean-Philippe Mateta, who scored 17 goals and provided four assists in 46 games.

The second reason the Englishman would love playing alongside the Leipzig star is the fact that he’d be a total handful for opposition defenders.

The former RB Salzburg star is 6 foot 5, able to hit speeds of 35.69 km/h, sat in the top 8% of forwards in the Bundesliga for percentage of successful take-ons last season, per FBref, and is capable of scoring with his head, from long range and inside the box.

In short, he is starting to look like an incredibly complete striker, and therefore, he’ll force defenders to pay more attention to him, thus allowing more space for the former QPR gem to operate in.