Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette, Sead Kolasinac still two tremendous prizes

Arsenal may have flubbed all over themselves on Deadline Day, but we should still be incredibly happy with Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolasinac.

When I write too many negative articles in a row, I just want to go bury my head in the sand and wait until September 26th (yeah, I got that Ronaldo edition) when I can play as Arsenal on FIFA 18 and do things my way. So here’s a bit of optimism to help wash down all that despair.

It was just two months ago that Arsene Wenger broke our transfer record answering the decade-long void to have a striker of the highest caliber. Alexandre Lacazette was precisely that. The preseason showed glimpses of what he was capable of and when he scored less than two minutes into his competitive career at Arsenal, nothing else mattered. We had everything.

Seeing him get benched against Liverpool was inexcusable, but it won’t happen again. Lacazette will be out there every single day from here on out. The thumping goal that was incorrectly (yes, incorrectly) ruled offside against Stoke City was inexcusable, but it won’t happen again (or at least, not that often).

As far as I’m concerned, Lacazette has scored two crucial goals in two starts. He hasn’t even had Alexis Sanchez there with him, he’s had to work with Danny Welbeck, and he hasn’t had much time out there with Olivier Giroud either.

There is so much upside here that can give us the goals that we need. As such, we have so much to be excited about with his presence alone.

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And Sead Kolasinac? Talk about everything we’ve ever wanted in a player. Endless fight, grit, determination, motivation, hunger. He wins the ball back flawlessly and he pushes forward superbly. Who saw that assist for Bosnia? That is what we have to look forward to.

That’s why I have no qualms seeing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain waltz his arse down to Liverpool. Stick Kolasinac at wingback where he belongs and we get better than we were with Oxlade-Chamberlain there.

This lad is good for 8-10 assists a year. And you can quote me on that. He will become Giroud’s best friend because of his early crosses. He will find late runners like Aaron Ramsey when he drives deeper into the box than any other wingback and clinical finishers like Lacazette can simply drop back and wait for a sneaky ball into his feet.

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It may not be ideal and deadline day may have been massively frustrating. But it’s not the end of the world. These two guys that we did get are going to make a massive difference. All Wenger has to do is play them.

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