Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette Transfer Jig Is Finally Up

Arsenal has waited to the brink of the window closing to find a striker that will improve the squad, but now the clear-cut solution has eliminated himself.

Arsene Wenger’s now-infamous words are reverberating in my head. The same old speech about not being able to find anyone on the market that can improve the squad. Although now he has added that he has £300m to spend, if only he could find someone to improve this Arsenal squad.

Woe is the man that cannot find an improvement on Theo Walcott and Yaya Sanogo. Woe to all who rely on that man as well.

It’s now ten days before the window shuts and still Arsenal need a striker and a center back. With Rob Holding showing serious class, I am going to refocus on the striker situation, as I fear that it is the true problem here.

This is the same Arsenal attack that has failed to find consistency for years. You could say the same about the defense, but the defense has never been that terrible and there is a very high probability that Wenger will add another class center back like Mustafi.

But at striker, not so much.

That likelihood became even more abysmal when literally the only remaining striker with any ties to Arsenal removed himself from contention.

Concerning my personal situation, I do not think there will be a departure from Lyon,” Lacazette said, as quoted by the Telegraph. “Everything is going well here.”

And how well things are going. Through two games, Lacazette has five goals. Granted, two were penalties, but that still makes his penalty conversion rate 100% better than Arsenal’s. And those three goals scored from open play are three more goals than Arsenal’s strikers have scored this season.

But yet, tell me more about how he wouldn’t be an improvement on Theo Walcott.

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This is really a despondent time, as all hope we had in finding a new striker was tied to Alexandre Lacazette. It’s getting harder and harder to keep transfer talks under wraps, so it’s hard to imagine that Wenger has some secret other business going on outside of Lacazette. Plus, the only name that comes to mind is Chicharito, but that transfer front has been dead silent.

Let’s be clear about one thing: Coming out of this transfer window without a new striker is a blatant failure by Arsene Wenger. He established that this club needed a new striker and through failed endeavors for both Jamie Vardy and Wissam Ben-Yedder, we have enough knowledge to know that he was in the market.

He cannot possibly spin this in a way that is favorable to him. Especially now that Alexis is eliminating himself from contention and Walcott has done the same by declaring his intentions.

Even with the three months gained on Welbeck, that still only gives us one verified striker until after Christmas. Again – the exact same situation we have always been in in the past.

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This is a very delicate situation because I don’t see how Wenger can talk his way out of not signing a striker. Yet, Lacazette’s exit leaves us zero links. The jig is up, Arsene.

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Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette Transfer Jig Is Up

By Josh Sippie | Aug 21, 2016

Arsenal has waited to the brink of the window closing to find a striker that will improve the squad, but now the clear-cut solution has eliminated himself.

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