The Premier League’s most in-form player is…

Carlo Garganese

• 7 Apr 2024 11:30 BST
• 4 min read

Kai Havertz has silenced all his critics who questioned his big-money transfer from Chelsea as he is now the most in-form player in the entire Premier League.

In the last two months, according to ESPN, no player in the Premier League has more goal involvements than Havertz has for Arsenal.

Since February 17, Havertz has an impressive nine goal contributions in six Premier League starts.

The next best player after Havertz in this time is Cole Palmer, with eight goal involvements.

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Five of these are goals and four of them assists.

On Saturday, Havertz was once again superb as he played in the number nine role in the 3-0 win at Brighton.

The German contributed a goal and an assist as Arsenal returned to the top of the table ahead of Liverpool’s Sunday match against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

All this has come after a dreadful start to his Arsenal career where he was being labelled as the flop of the season by many experts.

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Arsenal signed Havertz from Chelsea for €75 million (£65m) last summer. That made him the third most expensive signing in the club’s history.

In the process he also became Arsenal’s highest-paid player. He earns an annual salary of €17m per season (£14.5m), more than Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and William Saliba.

Arteta’s move for Havertz came as something of a surprise as the Germany international had largely struggled during his time in the Premier League with Chelsea.

Although he scored the winner in the 2021 Champions League final against Manchester City, Havertz failed to live up to his billing after his £71m move from Bayer Leverkusen in 2020.

His poor start to his Arsenal career in which he had no goal contributions - goals or assists - in his first nine games and only two in his first 19, seemed to confirm that Arteta had made a mistake signing Havertz.

But Havertz has been in sensational form recently and this has even led to suggestions that Arsenal should not sign a top-class natural number nine this summer as had initially been the plan.

Arteta recently hailed Havertz for turning around his Arsenal career.

What did Arteta say?

“I’m so happy,” said Arteta after the win against Brentford in which Havertz scored a late winner.

“If somebody told me after the first two or three months that the whole stadium would be singing his song with that passion, with that feeling, with that chemistry, I would have found it hard to believe.

“That’s what happens to good people. He’s an exceptional player. When he starts to score goals like this and everything starts to flow people feel more connected with him.

“They see his work rate, they see his intelligence, they see how he plays for the team and how he’s contributing. It’s impossible not to love him.”