Arsenal’s Top 10 Premier League Goalscorers
Jan 17th, 2018 by 'holic
Not surprisingly the topic of goalscorers has occupied my mind of late. This evening I’m looking back at the Arsenal’s top goalscorers since the beginning of the Premier League in the 1992-93 season and even includes three players, no, make that two, soon to be one (!) still currently playing for us.
Thierry Henry (175)
One of the greatest players the Premier League and world football has ever seen, Thierry Henry helped the Arsenal to two league titles and three FA Cups between 1999-2007, costing less than what Liverpool paid for Emile Heskey a few months later!
The World Cup 98 and Euro 2000 winner was the second highest goalscorer in Premier League history when he first left the Gunners over a decade ago, going on to win further honours with Barcelona before making an emotional goalscoring return to the Gunners in 2012.
Thierry Henry is Arsenal’s all-time top scorer and currently tops up his pension as a successful television pundit.
Ian Wright (104)
Ian Wright joined the Arsenal from Crystal Palace in 1991 before the Premier League had been formed. He went on to be a prolific goalscorer in all competitions for the North London club, eventually winning the Premier League title up front with Dennis Bergkamp during the 1997-98 season.
The former-England international turned television pundit and personality had been Arsenal’s all-time top goalscorer in all competitions until he was surpassed by Thierry Henry in 2005.
Robin van Persie (96)
Arsène Wenger signed Robin van Persie from Feyenoord for £2.75 million in 2004. The Arsenal boss converted the Dutch international from a wide forward into a striker, from which van Persie became prolific during his final six seasons at the Emirates, when fit.
Van Persie controversially left for Premier League rivals Manchester United ahead of the 2012-13 season where he won his first league title in his first season at Old Trafford, and became the latest player to win the Golden Boot with two different teams.
As things currently stand, odds on the Premier League winner for this season reflect the runaway performance of the blue half of Manchester so far rather than red.
Dennis Bergkamp (87)
One of the most elegant players to grace the game, Dennis Bergkamp lit up the Premier League when Bruce Rioch brought him to Arsenal from Internazionale in a £7.5 million deal in the summer of 1995.
The non-flying Dutchman went on to score 87 Premier League goals during 11 seasons with the Gunners, teaming up with some of Arsenal’s great goalscorers; Thierry Henry and Ian Wright. He was also part of the Invincibles during the 2003-04 season.
In 2017 readers of the BBC voted Bergkamp’s goal versus Newcastle United in 2002 as the greatest goal in Premier League history.
Olivier Giroud (73)
Now in his sixth season with Arsenal since arriving from Montpellier for a fee around £10 million in 2012, Olivier Giroud has netted double figures in each of his seasons so far but has lost his regular starting place to Alexandre Lacazette this season. If only we had seen more of them as a strike duo.
Giroud’s 73 goals in 177 Premier League appearances falls somewhat short of the likes of Thierry Henry, Ian Wright and Robin van Persie in the goals per game ratio.
Theo Walcott (65)
Arsène Wenger raised a few eyebrows in January 2006 when he signed 16-year-old Theo Walcott in a deal worth £5 million, potentially rising to £12m. The teenager had shown promise in his limited appearances for Southampton but the price was still considered substantial at the time.
Walcott even made Sven-Göran Eriksson’s World Cup squad later that summer, though did not make an appearance during that tournament. He’s actually still yet to make an appearance at a single World Cup, but will be hoping his move to Merseyside today will put him back in the frame for this summer’s tournament in Russia.
Now 28 years old, Theo Walcott has scored 65 goals in 268 Premier League appearances over 12 years – predominately playing down the right wing. His move to Everton brings an end to an association that promised a great deal, but didn’t quite deliver. He leaves with our best wishes for some of his goalscoring appearances in big matches. Good luck Theo.
Robert Pirès (62)
One of the most talented and exciting players to step foot in the Premier League, Robert Pirès wowed crowds between 2000-06 at Arsenal, in which he won two Premier League titles, including being an integral part of the Invincibles.
He scored more than 14 goals in three separate Premier League campaigns which was very impressive for a wide man when Arsenal also had the likes of Thierry Henry at the same time. Robert still helps out at the club in various roles and remains as popular as ever with the supporters.
Alexis Sánchez (60)
Now in the final six months of his contract at the Emirates, Alexis Sánchez either has until the end of this season or until he is sold later this month, to catch up with Robert Pirès and/or Theo Walcott to move further up Arsenal’s all-time Premier League top scorers chart. With Manchester United having agreed terms with him that seems highly unlikely.
The Chilean has been phenomenal for Arsène Wenger’s side since joining from Barcelona in a £31.7 million deal following the 2014 World Cup. His 60 goals have come in 120 Premier League appearances, giving him a 0.5 goal ratio. However his increasingly erratic behaviour has made the gamble of not selling him last summer a failed one.
Emmanuel Adebayor (46)
A controversial figure among Arsenal fans, who wanted a wage to match Thierry Henry before he ever proved anything at the club. In fact, Emmanuel Adebayor never really did prove anything during his three-and-a-half years at the Emirates.
The Togolese striker’s only prolific season came during 2007-08 when he netted 24 goals in 36 Premier League appearances, but even then six of those came in two appearances versus a Derby County side that picked up a record low 11 points that season.
Freddie Ljungberg (46)
One of Arsène Wenger’s greatest finds, Freddie Ljungberg arrived from Halmstads in his homeland for £3 million in 1998. He became a two-time Premier League winner and lifted the FA Cup on three occasions during his nine seasons with Arsenal.
Another wide player who liked to get on the scoresheet, the Swede netted 10+ goals in two Premier League campaigns. Together with Robert Pires he provided a real threat from the flanks and was another firm favourite. Who will ever forget his red hair?
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Cheers H!
Challenge for the evening.
Read that blog in the style of Casey Casem (with optional additions of the word “ZOINKS!” from time to time)
From previous drinks
It won’t be interesting Cynic it will be tragic…and very unlikely
Unlikely indeed, but would surely (with a serious club anyway) put the final nail in the Wenger coffin.
Esso!
Good evening mate.
Hello Cynic.
How’s it going?
Sad days, H.
But on the bright side, at least we’re a daft haircut down.
In eight of his twelve seasons with Arsenal, Theo scored less than 10 goals in all competitions. Doesn’t really cut it. Maybe Big Sam’s discipline and regular football is what he needs.
TTG@the previous drinks: the question is not so much whether this is an unWengeresque transfer window as whose side is being built for next season.
Ned from previous drinks
Many thnks for video highlights of Utd/WBA game from 78.
What a cracking game,end to end football,great goals,great saves from Utd keeper Bailey.
Brom 2 – 1 up then 3 -2 down,and showed great belief to come back and win 5 -3.
Cyrille’s finish for the 5th goal, at the end of a flowing length of the field move was a stunning final nail in the coffin for Utd.
Very nostalgic.
And in two of those eight seasons, he had a serious knee injury and didn’t play for ten months (280 days) and missed 38 matches.
He also missed 91 days (18 matches) with his first shoulder dislocation.
You’re also counting this season, I suppose as you’ve said “12 seasons” when his manager has been picking anyone but him.
You can’t score goals if you’re not playing.
Chelsea down to 9 men going to PKs. Morata sent off after getting first yellow for a dive in the box then second for dissent! Chelsea has three yellow cards for dives; serves them right!
And there you see the reason I hate VAR.
We had two occasions where Chelsea players dived and were booked, everybody is wetting themselves because the referee didn’t refer to the video. The other occasion, where they wanted a handball, Norwich were up the other end. Is he supposed to stop play?
Fuck off, VAR.
VAR will obviously take time to bed in, and mistakes will still be missed, but I think it will prove valuable when the kinks are worked out. In particular players prone to diving will be thinking twice about their chances of getting away with it. It should only take a few examples to remove this blight from the game.
VAR cocked up once tonight because the PGMOL scumbag watching cleared his mate of a horrendous cock up. Willian was clearly upended. Otherwise it proved the referee right on the other three dives and the non-handball.
Get independent VARs and we have an improvement on what has already demonstrably improved things. Next mic the referees up!
Willian started his fall before he was touched though. VAR is a nonsense for anything other than offsides. Goal line technology and offside judgement but only when a goal is scored and the game is stopped. That’s fine.
Using it on matters of opinion is rubbish however, because if your opinion is that contact is good enough for a penalty, as Jenas seems to, no matter how minor that is, you will give a different decision from someone who thinks that not all contact is a foul.
Contact is a foul (he’s entitled to go down) is ruining the game and VAR will only make that worse IMO
VAR might be useful to see if there
is any actual contact – after that it’s
the ref’s opinion. We need to try it
and see first.
I completely agree contact as a
foul is just nonsense and is simply
adjusting too far in the forward’s
favour. And agree on Mics for refs
– I can’t see any good reason
why not.
A mystery club in for Alexis?
It seems from the presser that
Nacho and Kos are back for
Palace, and maybe Ozil. OG
still out and Ash M-N is feeling
poorly.
There may have been some
questions about transfers too.
Is Theo playing?
Oh.
I’m guessing Theo is playing
this weekend….
We do need more Everton matches on the telly… just saying like 😉
Oh and I see our home game with them is live on BT Spurt in February.
Cheers Ho,ic !
“In fact, Emmanuel Adebayor never really did prove anything during his three-and-a-half years at the Emirates.”
Oh yes he did …. !
Ho,ic ? Holic !
hahaha – he proved even more after
he left
Feo is playing, from on offside position of course
OM@14.
No good reason?
Mike Dean with a mic?
God help us!
For my first number I thought I’d like to start with something originally sung by Sinatra. I’ve always felt that Frank and I have a simliar stage presence and ability to hold an audience enraptured. And, if I’m really honest, that he only ever sang “My Way” with me in mind.
At some point in the second half I will certainly be doing a few more active dance numbers. I want to show the crowds who came to see me my impressive range of spins and twirls. I hear Pink uses a range of acrobatic apparatus to glide through the air as she performs. I’d be great at that. And much more sexy than her. I do quite fancy some of her makeup though. We wouldn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, now would we?
Finally refereeing is moving in the right direction. What a relief. At some point you do wonder if anyone even notices how much more glamour you put into it than the rest of those useless lumps. Honestly, life is tough as a ref.
Until now. Finally. Everything is coming up MIKE DEAN!
Anyone with a strong constitution and some technical know-how want to transplant Mike Dean’s face onto Pink in mid performance?
Cynic. Why am I thinking of you?
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Ya bum
Go home
Ad infinitum
Because the thought of me looking like Mike Dean with Pink’s body is turning you on?
I don’t know what you look like.
But, yeah, in my head you’re pretty hot.
I look like Mike Dean with Pink’s body. It was a good guess.
Interesting view on the VAR controversy from The Guardian which says that the referee could not be over-ruled on the Willian incident, because if his view was that any contact was initiated by Willian, and not the defender (which it apeared to be) there was no clear mistake.
Also that VAR detracts from the game, because everyone is talking about that rather than the fact that Chelsea had three players booked for simulation, two of whom were given red cards (for a subsequent foul and dissent).
Which were good points.
Pink is a much better referee
Trev
Get a proper spillchucker, it lets the site down all these typos! ?
On a serious note it is being claimed Ozil is signing a new contract , as is Jack. If Auba signs with Mkhitaryan all we need is a decent coach….and a defence….and a DM.But we are getting there!
Cynic @28.
So good! Hahahaha!
Who the hell is Mike Dean or for that matter Pink?
Bravo Mike Dean @24. Go for it fella.
Cynic @29, I thought the ref got all the calls right last night. If only others would follow his lead.
Willian dived onto the foolishly outstretched leg. He could have as easily jumped over it and possibly scored but the modern footballer’s instinct took over. It was a perfect re-enactment of a couple of Roonie’s pens against us including the one that ended the Invincibles run at 49. Not a surprise that the pros in the studio thought that it was a pen and the ref and the VAR were wrong given earlier assertions of “There’s contact so he’s entitled to go down!” An end to such cheating would require all refs to show the same courage as last night’s custodian. Can’t see it happening though.
And yes, VAR will throw up disagreements in such matters but on balance it may correct more than it fudges.
And no, Mike Dean will not show the wisdom and courage of last night’s ref. Carry on dancing, fella.
Nice review of our strikers, H. Enjoyed reading that.
I didn’t understand the significance of the Man City paragraph re RVP.. but a thoroughly enjoyable read nonetheless!
A great piece on Cyrille Regis in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/18/a-letter-to-cyrille-regis-my-dads-hero
At least we now know Barack is the only drinker who actually reads the blog properly 😀
GSD – I lied.
I actually look like Pink with Mike Dean’s body :-/
Methinks Aubameyang could be Adebayor Mk2. Are there no other options? Please not Draxler.
wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf aubameyang
Another childhood hero gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPj4jthKxQ
Wir fahr’n Automeyang you mean, cba?
@32 Sancho P.
I’m the Godfather of refereeing.
If it makes you feel more comfortable just call me The Don.
Dean out.
no
mine’s better
?
i agree
@43
A warm welcome’s always assured
for you at Arsenal 🙂
I’ll be happier when i can call you
The Done.
@cba
*pirouettes three times, double pikes in a way that Hazard would be proud of*
Red card. You’re off.
*raises chin and shrugs the shrug of a man who has been left no choice. And could not be happier*
No one beats Mike Dean.
@47.
Great post.
Mike Dean is our hero.
@44
I disagree
Don Dean
Avon calling
No one beats Mike Dean
Unfortunately. He should be laid over a washing and whupped like a rug. With a shitty stick.
Washing line*
@51
I agree
@51
Me too
Me three
?
.
ps
49
42 is 40 writ in neon
pushed down stairs
tied to a brass band
*hides from chris*
“he went thattaway!”
*points outta town*
wednesday evening follies?
Fact of the midweek: Mike Dean is a pencil necked geek.
Pro wrestling whipping boy career awaits.
Mike Dean on steroids with bulging muscles and gold foil costume plastered all over.
Deflated to a wrinkly guy dribbling spit and blabbering gibberish.
Something about what he did to the Arsenal.
A pencil neck geek, bt8? That brings back memories … http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/freddie+blassie/pencil+neck+geek_20769788.html
If you take a pencil that won’t hold lead,
Looks like a pipe cleaner attached to a head,
Add a buggy whip body with a brain that leaks,
You got yourself a grit eatin’, pencil neck geek.
Pencil neck geek, grit eatin’ freak,
Scum suckin’, pea head with a lousy physique.
He’s a one man, no gut, loosing streak.
Nothin’ but a pencil neck geek.
Describes the Mike Dean we all know and love quite well, I reckon!
You can’t hide from me, cba, you can run but you can’t hide… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFm3f9HorM
If Ozil stays it will have been an awful transfer window, IMO.
Best player gone to a rival.
Favourite player gone to what is probably more of a rival the way we’re playing.
Biggest waster in the squad stays.
Amy Lawrence said Theo was the player who summed up Wenger’s Arsenal in recent years (in so many years) but it is not all that long ago people, possibly including Amy, were saying it was Ozil. Bursts of brilliance along with long periods of looking very very ordinary.
It’s funny how two or three games where he gets his finger out has erased all that.
Walcott also talked about needing a new manager. In that respect he IS Arsenal 🙂
Oh dear, Cynic. Once Sanchez goes, Ozil is our best player by a mile, and we are very lucky to have him here. Sadly, many people will only realise this only once he’s gone, and it will of course be too late.
Andy Carroll is injured and now Chelsea want…Peter Crouch.
Silly season not just confined to the Arsenal then.
It’s getting like the old days in here. I am convinced that at least half a dozen of you are certifiable! 🙂
? chris 68
run?
wi’ my back an’ these feet !
liar
like the end of a mike yarwood show
(apart from – thank fuck that’s over)
.
“And this is me”
@63. As Hunter S. Thompson is supposed to have said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
Of course, the wrestling part is inferred.
Once Sanchez goes, Ozil is our best player by a mile
That’s a bit like having two notable art works in your collection, selling the Picasso and comforting yourself that you still have that Reg Kray sketch.
Another alternative careers for Mike Dean might include:
Professional police witness, always delivering the same testimony framing the innocent.
i was asked a few times
walking along the road – belfast 90s
to make up the numbers in a police line-up
.
couldn’t fuckin believe it
.
clearly a male model had knocked over an offy
(before cynic suggests other ?)
You are obviously the spitting image of Art Garfunkel, cba, and they were trying to get something on Martin McGuinness.
? cheeky bollix
.
i didn’t even realise
they did that here
for any fuckin number of reasons
.
anyhoo
enough tomfoolery
UP THE ARSENAL !
.
(indeed)
Which one is cba?
http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/e/u/l/l/image.related.articleLeadwide.620×349.1evm1.png/1305859097927.jpg
The one that most looks like Art Garfunkel
it’s a fair cop
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/130182245452547596/
BEJABERS!
It’s me Unca Seamus. ?
— “Ha ha ha , bath”
.
*opens ledger*
.
—“Brilliant”
.
*dips quill in inkwell*
.
— “Sure , if ye can’t laugh at yerself”
.
*starts taking names*
pay no heed bath
he’s all talk
.
(and forehead)
.
.
*starts new page*
mere crooners (and their doppelgangers) need not apply
If music be the food of love
Bob’s the indegestion
(sort of pinched from Half Man Half Biscuit)
If you see her, say Jello.
jello biafra?
Interesting article from a Chelsea blog:
https://t.co/KvLw19348h
Discusses their problems, but arguably just as applicable to how any “not quite top tier ” club should be planning their future.
Anyone have Gazidis’s email?
she might be in tangerine, eh ned?
great album, that blood (sausage) on the tracks.
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