Thierry Henry set a remarkable standard during his eight years in England – and Arsenal’s strikers since have unsurprisingly struggled to match it.
The Frenchman is Arsenal’s all-time top goalscorer with 227 goals, and it has proven to be borderline impossible to replace him with a player of the same quality.
Hopes are high that Gabriel Jesus can fire Arsenal into the Champions League in 2017 and his pre-season form – three goals in three matches – has been incredibly encouraging.
But it feels unfair to include the £45million signing from Manchester City in our ranking before his competitive debut.
Still, here are the 14 out-and-out strikers to have made their debut for the Gunners since Henry’s departure, ranked by how well they fared.
14. Park Chu-young
One of Arsene Wenger’s weirdest signings, Park wasn’t a young player the Frenchman took a chance on but a 26-year-old who’d just been relegated with Monaco.
Park was given Arsenal’s No.9 shirt after signing for the club in 2011, but he made just seven appearances for the club before being released in 2014. We’re still not quite sure what that was all about.
READ: Ranking Arsenal’s 26 weirdest Premier League signings
13. Chuba Akpom
The Arsenal academy graduate thrived for the Under 21s but had a series of unsuccessful loans in the Championship.
Akpom never scored for Arsenal and managed just 12 Premier League appearances for his boyhood club before signing for Greek Super League club PAOK Salonika in 2018.
12. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Another product of the Arsenal academy, he failed to score in six appearances for the first team.
11. Yaya Sanogo
Sanogo is best remembered for scoring four goals against Benfica in the 2014 Emirates Cup in one of the most misleading pre-season performances in human history.
Because that quadruple of strikesabout as good as it got for him in an Arsenal shirt. The Frenchman played just 20 times for the Gunners, with his only competitive goal coming against Borussia Dortmund in 2014.
Yaya Sanogo to leave Arsenal after 4 years and one goal. Thanks for the memories. pic.twitter.com/24MLEdTapu
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) June 5, 2017
10. Lucas Perez
Perez joined Arsenal in 2016 on the back of a tremendous season in La Liga, but he struggled in England and hardly got a chance under Arsene Wenger.
The Spaniard scored a hat-trick against Basel in the Champions League but made just 11 Premier League appearances for the Gunners before spending a…
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