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Fabrizio Romano says Arsenal turned down ‘complete’ striker in January
For months, Arsenal fans and Gunners-leaning pundits alike called for the club to sign a new striker.
For instance, Ian Wright recent🌺ly a new striker at Arsenal would help reduc❀e some of the “desperation” around the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal did try their luck with a £70million bid for Ollie Watkins, and Arsenal also made an approach for Evan Ferguson.
However, by the time the transf🧔er window slammed shut, the Gu꧙nners didn’t make a single signing.
Arsenal were also offered a number of players, such as Alvaro Morata, but they seemiꦐngly turned down 🔯the opportunities presented to them.
Now, Fabrizio Romano has share🦩d why the Gunners rejected the chance to sign the Spain international.
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Fabrizio Romano says Arsenal wanted to save themselves for summer window
Romano, speaking on his YouTube channel, spoke about Morata, who🍌 was offered to Arsenal with the same conditions he was offere𒁃d to Galatasaray.
The AC Milan forward has gone to the Turkish Super Lig club on a loan deal with a buy option, and Romano hint⭕ed the Gunners would’ve had the same arrangement.
“Morata was offered to Arsenal, so the o🉐pportunity to return to the Premier League after the experience he had in London with Chelsea,” said Romano.
“It was discussed internally, but then Arsenal decided to skip this opportunity to 𓂃go for different ide♒as, to stay with the current squad, and then in the summer invest full money on the striker.
“I also expect💃 Arsenal to be very busy in the midfield because they want to do something important also in tha🌱t position.
“So Morata🍷 was an option for Arsenal but they decided not to proceed and then he ended up joining Galatasaray.”
How Morata has been doing in recent years
Morata hasn’t been doing particularly badly for the most part, but he’s not♐ exactly been the most prolific of strikers.
| Club | Season | Appearances | Goals | Assists | Yellow cards | Red cards | Minutes |
| Chelsea/Atletico Madrid | 18/19 | 41 | 15 | 1 | 10 | – | 2.709′ |
| Atletico Madrid | 19/20 | 44 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2.801′ |
| Juventus | 20/21 | 44 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2.824′ |
| Juventus | 21/22 | 48 | 12 | 9 | 5 | – | 3.205′ |
| Atletico Madrid | 22/23 | 45 | 15 | 3 | 5 | – | 2.496′ |
| Atletico Madrid | 23/24 | 48 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2.968′ |
| AC Milan/Galatasaray | 24/25 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 8 | – | 1.771′ |
However, he’s yet to get into double figures f🍌or goals and assists combined this season, which may well have been of concern to Arsenal.
In addition, Morata only managed 24 goals and six assists from 72 outings for Chelsea, and also misse♛d a fair few big chances while in blue.
Antonio Conte described Morata as a “complete pl🧔ayer” back in 2017, buᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt 🌜also admitted he had “a lot of room for improvement”.
That said, Morata has already scored for Galatasaray, so it r🃏emains to be seen how well he continues to do and whether Arsenal will regret passing up on him.