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Mikel Arteta has hinted Arsenal are considering signing a free agent in an effort to ease their mounting injury crisis.

Kai Havertz’s season-ending hamstring tear has left the Gunners without a recognised centre forward for the remainder of the campaign.

With Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli also on the sidelines, Arteta’s attacking reserves are at an all-time low with only Leandro Trossard, Ethan Nwaneri and Raheem Sterling still standing.

The Gunners opted to keep their powder dry in the January transfer window and reserved their budget for top targets Benjamin Sesko as well as Alexnader Isak.

Arteta still has the option to recruit a player currently without a club but the list of potential forward signings is hardly rich with world class talent likely to propel Arsenal to domestic or European glory.

Asked if Arsenal were considering taking emergency action, Arteta said: ‘We explore every possible situation and make a decision from there.’

Pressed on whether a free agent would possess the quality required to represent a team who still harbour Premier League and Champions League ambitions, he added: ‘Certain ability?

‘It has to be an ability that can play in our level and a body is someone we can recognise and somebody who can support and imact the team.’

Arsenal did make a late bid for Ollie Watkins in the January window but refused to meet Aston Villa’s £60 million valuation.

Asked if it was, in hindsight, a mistake to have soldiered on without making any new signings, Arteta said: ‘We always put in that situation that we were one or two injuries away from a very risky situation.

‘But when you try your best and think you have done everything you are capable of and have done your homework and try that and don’t achieve it you can have regrets but at least you know you have done it.’

Arteta also has the option to promote a handful of the club’s most promising players to the first team squad, although red tape would currently prevent Max Dowman, who doesn’t turn 16 until December, from representing the first team.

‘We have Max and many other kids it’s a big opportunity for us to see them in our environment and it’s clear on the rules with age restrictions at the moment, said the Arsenal manager in relation to Dowman.

‘It’s very difficult to change that as well.’

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