Arsenal: Budding Nabil Fekir transfer fears are very real

Arsenal’s January transfer window is getting pretty spicy, but the summer may get even spicier with Nabil Fekir’s evisceration of France.

Arsenal’s January transfer window is going like no other January transfer window in recent memory. They have already cut loose the problem child, Alexis Sanchez, and in return nabbed a serious game-changer in Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

From there, they may yet get Pierre-Emerick Aubemayang, making this a truly fearsome attack, and one that should look pretty familiar to Sven Mislintat.

But what does this mean for the summer? And I’m asking this, not as an ungrateful fan who only wants more, but as a concerned citizen.

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To me, the No. 1 target for this Arsenal club was Nabil Fekir. Linking him up with Alexandre Lacazette is going to be something truly magical and it’s something that both parties have been keen to talk about. Fekir’s own dad said that it looks like a great idea.

Assuming we land Aubameyang, and even if we don’t, the prospects of nabbing Fekir in the summer are looking slimmer than earlier.

For starters, Arsene Wenger is not a surplus kind of guy. While adding Fekir would provide the attack with a surplus of competitive talent, the likes of which Manchester City currently boast, that just isn’t Wenger’s shtick lately.

But that isn’t the main thing that concerns me about the potential move. The main thin is that Fekir is just so damn good. He is now on a six match scoring streak, boasting 19 total goals on the year across all competitions. That puts him in the top 10 highest scorers in all of Europe’s top five competitions. Behind Salah, he is second in the non-striker standings.

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Lyon aren’t the kind of team that will look at such production and not allow it to affect the players transfer fee. As we saw with three years of Alexandre Lacazette, production changes the game. As in, it changes the transfer fee.

At this rate, Fekir could score 30 goals. As a midfielder. That type of production, in the modern transfer market, can fetch a price upwards of £100m. Plus he will only be turning 25 this summer, so you could say that he isn’t even in his prime yet.

Lyon are notoriously tough customers when it comes to selling their star players. They have every right to be, but with Arsenal, they don’t need an already-tough customer, because they make everyone a tough customer.

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I’ll keep my hopes up that this can still happen. A midfielder with such amazing goal production is nearly unheard of. Hopefully whoever is in charge of transfers thinks the same thing.

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