Arsenal: Of course Alexandre Lacazette has a future, you silly “experts”

Arsenal may have made life a bit challenging for Alexandre Lacazette, but the early doomsday sayers are out of line. He has a future.

I realize that we all hit the panic button kind of hard with Alexandre Lacazette and I’m guilty of the same. When Arsenal signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, it wasn’t the end of the world, but it gradually started to look like it when, through two matches, Arsene Wenger refused to implement a two striker set because, honestly, this team is not equipped to handle one with the supporting cast they have.

That said, the future is a wide open expanse that no one can predict. Especially when you think of all the changes that are taking place at this club every day.

Given what we saw in the January transfer window and how much the club is progressing towards a more modern approach, perhaps with even more innovation involved, there is no reason to jump on this thought train that Lacazette has no future.

There are numerous ways I could dispute this, but let’s start with the simplest one – every serious team needs two quality strikers. United have Lukaku and Zlatan. City have Gabriel and Aguero. Chelsea have Giroud and Morata. Spurs don’t, but they’re not a serious team.

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The Gunners have avoided this reality for too long, but now that they have it, rather than rejoicing, people are panicking. It’s not even been a month since Aubameyang arrived and “experts” are saying that Lacazette is being shown the exit door.

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This is so incredibly premature. There is certainly reason to question how the club will function with the two of them and how a tandem system will work, but no future? That’s a claim based on two weeks of play, not taking into account this knee injury and not taking into account the new-look trajectory of the club.

Even if a two-striker system is never implemented, Arsenal are loading up to be a relevant force in every single competition going forward. That is going to require two strikers like Aubameyang and Lacazette. If we sell Lacazette now, we have to sign someone else. And while I love the idea of Timo Werner being brought in, nothing guarantees a Lacazette exit.

It’s his first year at a new club after spending his club in the fifth-best of the five big leagues. If struggling in that was grounds for immediate departure, so many players would never have made it.

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Not just that, but how often did we complain that Giroud never had any competition? Now we have that competition and people are saying it means he’s headed for the exit. It’s all panic-ridden hogwash, nothing more.