The Arsenal Academy star has left 12 years old, and now he has more career goals than Henry

After another trophyless season with Mikel Arteta, there are several factors that make Arsenal people liable.

The infinite red cards and injuries significantly halted progress, but still enough for a second-place finish in the Premier League and Champions League semi-finals.

Why didn’t they get over the line? Well, their recruitment last year or so was not great.

Last summer, Arsenal brought David Raya forever and welcomed Mikel Merino. In a hurry, no one will forget his goal for Real Madrid.

There was also the addition of injury-prone Ricardo Calfioli and a loan move to bring Raheem Sterling. The less you say about him, the better.

Then, when it came to January, Arsenal clearly needed a new forward and didn’t sign it. Just a few days after the windows closed, Kai Herberts was ruled out for four months with a hamstring injury, returning to the Emirates’ recent 1-0 victory at Newcastle.

Most of the time, Arteta’s recruitment is stronger and stronger than some of the businesses that took place in the later period of Arsene Wenger’s tenure since being given a job.

Arsenal’s biggest mistake in the transfer market

It’s safe to say that Arsenal has made many Howlers in recent years. The biggest is the decision not to sign in the front of the center.

Meanwhile, they left the American international Foralimbalogun, but now Monaco’s Balogun and teammate Mica Vierrez became one of Europe’s most prolific forwards.

Following the success of Loan Spell at Sturm Graz last summer, the Austrian side signed permanently for £4 million and spent time dropping goals at Bundesliga, he headed for Monaco.

Over the course of this campaign, Dane found the net on 27 occasions in 44 games. In 2025, he scored 13 times, becoming the fourth-highest scorer in Europe’s best league of the year.

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Germany scored in the Champions League with the Gunners last season, and he wasn’t always a regular starter in this term, and his numbers at Bayern Munich spoke of himself, recording 152 goal involvement on 280 outings.

Gnabry, who wasn’t enough for Tony Pulis during his Lawn Spelling at West Brom, has since been all from strength to strength.

The now 29-year-old Arsenal Academy alumni is a six-time league winner at Bayern, won the lonely Champions League and won the Club World Cup amidst the success of the domestic cup.

But despite the honest number goals outlined here, they are undoubtedly not Arsenal’s biggest mistake. It remains Harry Kane.

Why Harry Kane left Arsenal

“Harry Kane, he’s one of us,” is a song that Tottenham Hotspur fans sang in the direction of the beloved striker.

But was this statement really true? Probably not.

Kane grew up playing at Spurs Academy, but Arsenal was his first club. As a child, there is an astonishing image of an attacker dressed in a red and white jersey, but it never happened to him with the gunner.

He was 12 years old when he placed London’s Redside behind, and Roy Massey, the club’s former academy manager, later revealed why.

Speaking solely to Talksport, Massey said:

“Harry was a lovely young player. He was quiet and shy and didn’t have what he thought was necessary to become a professional footballer, so we were totally wrong.

“When Harry was released when he was 11 or 12, he played for the league club on the next three years, so I have to say that other clubs in that age group came to pick him up.”

Well, he certainly proves Massy wrong in an astonishing career at the club and international level.

How Harry Kane compares to Thierry Henry

As far as Arsenal is concerned, the legend of all those biggest clubs is the great Thierry Henry. Titi, as he was lovingly known, signed the gunners in a deal worth just £11 million. Of course, it was now over 20 years ago, but it remains one of the biggest bargains we’ve seen.

Signed as the winger on the left, Wenger built his French companions forward to the elite centre, quickly breaking the record and becoming one of those, if not the best foreign imports we’ve seen in the Premier League era.

Henry won the Premier League twice, three FA Cups, twice as a league Golden Boots winner, eventually leaving Highbury and the Emirates, scoring an astounding 228 goals in 377 games, becoming the club’s record scorer.

Over his career, the World Cup winner has scored 411 goals for the club and country, but Kane, just as amazing as Henry, is now above that number.

It’s not that the England captain is a better player, but it speaks to the amount of amazing progress he has made in the senior game.

Since making his senior bow from his 12-year-old refusal at Arsenal, he has found the net on a whopping 449 occasions for the club and the country. He was England’s top goal scorer in history and is now finally a trophy winner.

Kane finished his hoodoo this term and lifted the Bundesliga title above his head a few weeks ago. He also scored 82 goals in 91 appearances, along with Bayern Munich’s sense.

He is a true modern phenomenon and perhaps the best finisher in world football. Arsenal left it at the age of 12.