Arsenal Consider January Move for Bayer Leverkusen Striker Christian Kofane

Arsenal are weighing up a move for Bayer Leverkusen striker Christian Kofane as they look to strengthen their attack, according to BBC Sport.

The Gunners have made a near-perfect start to the Premier League season, winning nine of their first 10 league games. 

Their latest win, 1-0 at home to Hull, matched their best ever start to a top-flight season and left them five points clear at the top. But goals have been a worry. 

Six of those nine wins came by a single goal, and no one has stood out as the main scorer. Kai Havertz, Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka are joint-top scorers in the league with three each.

Manager Mikel Arteta knows it. After the Hull game, he said the team must get better in front of goal. 

“We need to find ways to be more efficient, sometimes even more pragmatic,” he said. 

“Sometimes my feeling is that we are trying to score a perfect goal against these low blocks. We need to be much more chaotic than that, and that’s it. And open, I think, the scoreline much earlier because obviously that’s going to change the course of the game.”

Arsenal have leaned heavily on Havertz as their focal point. Viktor Gyokeres is also in the squad, but Arteta has started the £63.7million Swede just once in the league. His future is uncertain, and that has fuelled talk that Arsenal could shop for a forward in January.

That is where Kofane comes in. The 20-year-old Cameroonian has scored three goals in six games for Leverkusen this season, but a hamstring injury has kept him out since October 10. 

Arsenal fans may remember him. He started both legs when Leverkusen lost 3-1 on aggregate to the Gunners in the Champions League last 16 last season. He did not score in either game, yet his quick rise seems to have caught Arsenal’s eye.

His story is a fast one. In 2024 he moved from AS Nylon in Cameroon to Spanish second-tier side Albacete, where he scored eight goals in 20 games. 

Leverkusen then signed him in July 2025. He has since scored ten goals and made nine assists in 50 games for the German club, and he is only in his second season of top-flight football.

Kofane is not the only forward linked with the Gunners. They have also been reported to be considering a January move for Club Brugge striker Nicolo Tresoldi, who has scored 14 goals in 17 games in all competitions this season, including a hat-trick against Inter Milan in the Champions League.