Why Arsenal have made Bryan Mbeumo a TOP target!

Arsenal fans, have we made an error? Have we been focusing on the wrong Brentford lad? In a day and age where we know we need a striker amongst other positions and Ivan Toni was linked with our football club which as you've seen he's moved to Saudi Arabia, were we focusing on the wrong lad from Brentford? Now I want to ask you lot a question, would you like long term cover for Bukayo Saka and added versatility across the front line? The answer would be yes. Again as I said us Arsenal fans were focusing on the wrong lad. According to Team News and Tick, staff at Arsenal Football Club were keen on Arsenal signing Mbuemo from Brentford. So let's attempt to gauge as to why we would do such. Now as I said, Team News and Tick, Sammy Moatbell, any credible journalist after the fallout of the summer transfer window has said Arsenal considered a late move for Mbuemo which evidently he's not playing for Arsenal Football Club, that didn't quite work out. Now for me, he's a transitional demon, he's got a lovely left foot, he's dynamic, he's versatile and he's aggressive in all phases of play. He's also at 25-26 years of age, at the prime age to really adapt to Arsenal's way of life, not to mention he's Premier League proven. There's a lot to like about the Brentford attacker people and you can see just by watching Premier League football why Arsenal would be drawn to him. In my opinion he has all the tools to thrive not only in his position but in terms of our high energetic pressing game as well. This season he started off in blisteringly good form, he's got three goals in three games already. You would have seen he was instrumental to their win against Crystal Palace in relation to Brentford, opening the scoring with a sublime finish. He also netted a brace against Southampton last time out to make it three goals in as many appearances which currently, while there's a long time to go in the Premier League, only Erling Haaland is ahead of him in such. Now for me I would say his best position is off the right-hand side but he can play as a false nine. I'd see no reason as to why he can't play on the left. The man's a demon on the transition, he works his socks off, he's a pressing machine. There's a lot of intangibles in relation to Brentford and Thomas Frank's style of play that he could adapt and work at Arsenal and ensure he thrives. He also can take a mean set piece. I also have to big him up because between him and Visser, they coped very well with Ivan Toni's absence and during a couple of years in Buermo has actually been at Brentford. He's been a great partner and understudy to both Ivan Toni and once upon a time Ollie Watkins who has since joined Aston Villa. I wouldn't describe him by any stretch of the imagination as a prolific goal scorer. I mean on the face of it, 25 goals and 21 assists in 101 Premier League games and when you consider total appearances for Brentford, 203, 53 goals and 42 assists, it's not really eye catching. But I do think he's a player that is a rough diamond and I don't think the statistics do him justice. Last season he got 9 goals and 6 assists in which he missed several games due to injury. As stated earlier in the video, this season he's already got 3-3. You could argue at Arsenal, a team that got 91 Premier League goals, playing with better players, scoring more goals, naturally he would thrive. Only Harlan is ahead of him in the goalscoring charts at the moment. He's a player who provokes havoc and thrives in a more chaotic Premier League game. He's also so good at arriving late into the box or just in general his runs into the box. He makes intelligent runs. He's so good off the ball. Now Brentford fans I'm sure would agree with me to describe Apologies his debut season at Brentford would be electric. He scored 15 times in the Championship which also shows added experience. He's got 101 Premier League games to his belt and he's got a significant season in the Championship and at 25-26 he's ready to make the step up. He got 15 goals in his debut season as I said in the Championship. He contributed 8 goals during the 2020-21 campaign when Brentford were promoted via the playoffs. We also would have seen Benjamin White and Aaron Ramsdale's debut game when Brentford returned to the Premier League, how good he was and what they did to us then. Let's forget about that. Now again, Arsenal seem to play one formation and we kind of tweak it but Thomas Frank's a very good tactician really and you've seen him play a 4-3-3, a 3-5-2 and things of that ilk. Now again, you look at the Ivan-Tony and Mbwemo partnership, it worked a target. David Rye who now plays for Arsenal Football Club, at the time he's doing it with Havertz now but at the time he would target Tony from goal kicks and Mbwemo would chase after any flick-ons which the second ball is vital in football. It sounds a bit like Arsenal Football Club at this moment in time people. I would say Mbwemo's preferred position is on the right wing so he can cut inside on his left foot, his dominant foot and he's also tweaked his game to succeed centrally when demanded of him at Brentford. He'll explode and explodes in tight spaces people along the width of the front line. For me he positions himself where he can't be tightly marked. He places himself in awkward positions between defenders and he's a very good technical player. He's got a very good first touch, he can receive the ball on either foot but obviously naturally generally wants to work with his favoured left peg. He can also play off a one-touch sort of way of playing football people. He's got incredible maturity and possession that is beyond his years in my opinion. He reads the space well and is a thinker's man's football. He scans well and he uses his peripheral vision on a football pitch amazing. He's also a brave lad, he puts his body on the line. He also is a mean set-piece taker which our set-piece culture at Arsenal Football Club would love. At a time people he attempted 24 crosses and found his team-mates with 12 which shows he is quite accurate with his crosses. So maybe with Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz arriving early slash late into the box Mbwemo could find them, a bit like how you'd see with Kyle Saka. In my opinion I might be doing too much but you could argue he's one of the most underrated players in the Premier League. I love the fact that he shoulders responsibility. He helped his team not alone but alongside Vissa in dealing with the absence of Ivan Toni and actually at this moment in time coping with life without Ivan Toni. I think he has an option of an additional year on his contract but currently he's contracted until 2026. He could be someone considered a target and a long-term player for us. I mean we do have great relationships with Brentford owing to a couple of our dealings. At 25-26, again in terms of his age, it would tie into the long-term strategy. I also believe while you can source players from all over, I do think Arsenal Football Club were at that point where potentially we need to start poaching the best of the rest from the smaller Premier League teams. I look at someone like Eze of Crystal Palace, Kudus of West Ham, Isaac of Newcastle United and it wouldn't help to go to that small club in South West London and try and poach Cole Palmer people. Banter aside, he's an experienced Premier League player. He's a Cameroon international. He is to a degree Premier League improving and it could be worth pointing towards January of maybe tempting Brentford to sell. Next summer is probably more sensible. He would allow us to marry stronger creative depth in that position. And again, his strongest position is on the right-hand side. So he could be long-term competition for Bukayo Saka or a long-term rotational option amongst other areas. We all like players who like to take defenders on and has the speed to get past them. I do believe he can be slightly wasteful at times and he can be quite wasteful with snapshots inside and outside the area. But I do think year in, year out from what I've seen at Brentford, he's getting ever better there. And he's also someone of a growth mindset. In his spare time, allegedly he uses an app on his iPad called Summer that according to the company's website says is the leading cognitive performance training platform trusted by professional athletes, militaries and universities around the world. So this is someone that has a growth mindset and wants to be better. He's also known to do a series of extra training sessions to improve his accuracy with head of coaching Justin Coltrane and assistant coach Kevin O'Connor people. Thomas Frank has even attributed his clinical finishes to those extra hours he's been putting in. I mean, if Embermo can maintain his level of performance, then he, in my opinion, stands to have his best goal-scoring season in terms of output in the Premier League to date. There's no reason as to why he can't reach double figures in the division for the first time. I do think if you go back in time, he's also signalled his intentions of one day playing for a more bigger club. So owing to him signalling his intentions, Arsenal doing their research and seeming like he's a player that flags on their radar and also his contract situation where he's contracted until 2026 with an option of another year, this could be one that is one to watch for the future. But for what it's worth, if we could get him in January, it'd be great. Obviously, you know, he's irrelevant to a degree at least until January at the earliest or more realistically the summer because the windows closed. But for what it's worth, I can see why Arsenal are linked to him and I definitely wouldn't be upset if we confirmed his signature. With that being said, that's enough waffling and rambling from me. You lot let me know your thoughts. Don't forget to leave a comment, like, comment and subscribe, turn on your notification bells and check out the rest of the other content. God bless you all. DG Nation stay safe. We're on a journey to 70k subs, but on that note, we'll link up again soon. Peace.