Kai Havertz snubs former Chelsea teammates and names the best striker he’s played with

Kai Havertz has scored two goal in his last two games for Arsenal (Picture: Sportdaily)

Kai Havertz has snubbed his former Chelsea teammates and named Gabriel Jesus as the best striker he has ever played with.

The Germany international spent three years at Stamford Bridge during which time he played alongside the likes of Romelu Lukaku. Timo Werner and Olivier Giroud.

For his country, meanwhile, Havertz has teamed up with the experienced Thomas Muller but after spending less than six months in the same Arsenal squad as Jesus, he believes the Brazil international is the pick of the bunch.

‘I have to say really I think the best. I knew this before as well but now I see it in every training session,’ he told SportDaily.

‘It’s an honour to play with players like this, he’s one of those players who can turn a game around by himself and I think he’s the best.’

Despite Havertz’s claim, Arsenal are said to be considering bolstering their striking department either in January or the summer window with both Victor Osimhen and Ivan Toney firmly on their radar.

Jesus, who scored in Wednesday night’s 6-0 thrashing of Lens, insists he is not distracted by speculation linking Arsenal with moves for a potential upgrade in his position.

‘This happens you know, maybe it can be agents talking about a lot of things,’ he said. ‘I’m not the most experienced, but I think I have seen a lot of things in football.

Sometimes it is like this, it happened when I was at City even with (Sergio) Aguero and me scoring. I was scoring a lot and people was linking everyone. So here, I don’t care about this.

‘I know my qualities and I know what I can bring to the team. I can score and I can also help with other things, like opening spaces. But the only people who can see it are those who watch the game and understand.

‘Those who don’t understand we will say that: ‘Oh he didn’t score today’. But maybe I run and open space for someone and, let’s be honest, I don’t miss a lot of chances.

‘I think it is not about ‘he doesn’t know how to score’. Sometimes I have to be more in the box, that is the one thing I am working on.’

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