Arsenal: Same Alexandre Lacazette bullsh*t, different year

Arsenal made a solid bid for Alexandre Lacazette, but are being told that it wasn’t enough. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, this “bullsh*t.”

Arsenal has always been linked to Alexandre Lacazette. Since before the dinosaurs and before the dinosaurs version of dinosaurs. And we are always right on the brink of landing him when all of a sudden, we stumble and fall and he stays at Lyon.

Guess what? It happened again.

With Kylian Mbappe pretty much off the table, reports began surfacing that all attention was on Lacazette. A very respectable £50m was submitted for the Frenchman, so they tell us, and we waited.

And now we hear that Lacazette will actually cost £60m, so take that, Arsene Wenger.

I have said this before and I will say it again, probably in a week or so. Jean-Michel Aulas, the owner of Lyon, is a used car salesman. He nickles and dimes and forces you to raise your price to what he wants so long as you are willing to.

This exact same thing happened last summer. It was reported that Arsenal made a bid in the range of £30m and Lyon said, nope, not enough. Make it £50m and then we will talk. And now we bid £50m and he says nope, not enough. Make it £60m then we will talk.

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It’s the same old bullsh*t summer after summer. Lacazette sits there talking about how badly he wants to move on and do something bigger and better with his footballing career and when the bids come in, nothing ever happens.

And while Aulas is indeed a car salesman, I also have to fault Wenger in the slightest. He has to know what he is facing every time he enters this ring. He has to know that what he wants to pay is never going to be enough. So why is a second bid never made? If you were interested enough to make that first bid and if money isn’t an issue, which he consistently assures us, it isn’t (looking at the board too…) then why is the money ruling out the player?

It’s just baffling that we can keep falling for the same damn dialogue. You’d think that eventually one of the three parties would change. Either Aulas would just accept a reasonable bid, Wenger would just pay the man what he wants, or we would stop getting our hopes up.

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