The summer transfer season is really starting to gear up and one of the first names that has been linked with Arsenal is Bournemouth’s Ryan Fraser.

93 – Key passes, 3rd in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Mesut Özil led Arsenal with 45).

2.6 – Key Passes per 90 minutes, 98th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

51 – Shots, tied for 52nd in the Premier League, would rank 3rd on Arsenal (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang led Arsenal with 94).

1.45 – Open play shots per 90 minutes, 67th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

50 – Open play key passes, 9th in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Alex Iwobi led Arsenal with 38).

1.9 – Open play key passes per 90 minutes, 96th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

14 – Assists, 2nd in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Alexandre Lacazette led Arsenal with 8).

18.6 – xG Assisted, 1st in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Alex Iwobi led Arsenal with 6.5).

0.51 – xG Assisted per 90 minutes, 98th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

16.1 – Offensive Value Added (A statistic scaled to goals that takes all offensive actions into account to determine total value added to a team), 9th in the Premier League, would rank 2nd on Arsenal (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang led Arsenal with 16.7).

77 – Accurate Crosses, 2nd in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Granit Xhaka led Arsenal with 31).

2.2 – Accurate Crosses per 90 minutes, 95th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

28.4% – Cross percentage, 77th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

128 – Successful passes into the box, 3rd in the Premier League, would rank 1st on Arsenal (Alex Iwobi led Arsenal with 89).

76.9% – Pass completion percentage, 48th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

24 – Successful dribbles, tied for 82nd in the Premier League, would rank 4th on Arsenal (Alex Iwobi led Arsenal with 46).

0.77 – Successful dribbles per 90 minutes, 33rd percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

0.5 – Tackles per 90 minutes, 4th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

0.7 – Interceptions per 90 minutes, 12th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

4.2 – Total Defensive Actions per 90 minutes, 11th percentile among all wide forwards going back to the 2011-12 season for Big 5 European Leagues.

Fraser is an interesting type of player. He has a set of skills that he is really good at but doesn’t have a very well rounded skill set.

He is a very good crosser of the ball, ranking very highly at the volume of crosses completed while also completing crosses at a good rate (his 28% completion rate this season would put him in the 77th percentile for wide forwards). This ability to complete crosses combined with Callum Wilson to aim at led to a number of key passes and assists this season.

Moving beyond his ability to create with his elite crossing his skills aren’t nearly as good. He is slightly above average at getting shots from open play and takes shots from pretty good locations. He doesn’t dribble often, especially for a player that has played primarily from the wide positions that is a very valuable skill to have.

His overall passing numbers aren’t great, but a lot of that is down to his pass attempt mix where he tries a lot of crosses and passes that typically don’t come off. Given the type of passes that he attempts an average player would complete about 74% of them so he is slightly above average even with numbers that aren’t great looking.

On defense, well at Bournemouth he looks to be one of the players that isn’t asked to contribute much. Most teams can get buy with one or two of these types of players but I am not sure that Fraser would be able to do that at Arsenal.

Arsenal are working to roll out a new way of doing business in the transfer market so I will trust the new process to see how things play out before I make any final decisions on a signing let alone a player who is rumored.