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Gary Neville feels Arsenal must sign a new striker following their 2-2 draw at home to north London rivals Tottenham on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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The Gunners currently have Gabriel Jesus as their main striker with Eddie Nketiah usually operating as a back-up option, while Leandro Trossard can also be deployed as a centre-forward.<\/p>\n
Arsenal sold striker Folarin Balogun this summer, while recent signing Kai Havertz is being moulded into a midfield player.<\/p>\n
Neville believes Arsenal need to recruit a new forward option if they are to close the gap to Manchester City.<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019ve got to have a couple of players in your team, at least one, who have that smell of where the ball is going to land,\u2019 Neville said on his podcast.<\/p>\n
\u2018Not a poacher, the days of poachers are gone that just play off another striker and two up top. We\u2019re not in that moment anymore.<\/p>\n
\u2018When you think of the forward lines we\u2019ve seen at Barcelona with David Villa, Pedro and Lionel Messi all those years ago \u2013 none of them are real strikers as in goal-sniffers. Sergio Aguero was, but we\u2019re not even talking about that, we\u2019re talking about someone who knows where to be.<\/p>\n
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\u2018What I didn\u2019t used to like as a defender, but also listening to Sir Alex Ferguson, the coaches and the England coaches over the years, it always had to be that strikers had to make runs across the defender. <\/p>\n
\u2018That if it\u2019s on the other side of the pitch and it\u2019s getting crossed to the back post, you make that run into the back post.<\/p>\n
\u2018On a corner, on that second ball when it\u2019s getting flicked on, you\u2019ve got to get in at the back post. At the end it just hit me, because I think of Ian Wright starting in and around the six-yard box because I used to mark Ian Wright at corners and he was a nightmare.<\/p>\n
\u2018He would always peel around to the back post to make sure if the ball gets glanced on, which it does, that you\u2019re there and he wasn\u2019t there. He was hanging out and didn\u2019t make that run.<\/p>\n
\u2018And Gabriel Jesus, when he robbed James Maddison, these are big moments in the game and big things. You\u2019ve got to be on the move and be sniffing, smelling, anticipating, and Arsenal haven\u2019t got that.<\/p>\n
\u2018I really like this Arsenal team and they could go on to win a title or finish second, have a great season and win trophies without that type of player, but it became obvious in this game that it was missing. Alan Smith pointed it out on commentary too and he knows far more than I do.\u2019<\/p>\n