Arsenal: Don’t prove the idiots right by selling Alexandre Lacazette

Arsenal are being linked to a summer sale of Alexandre Lacazette, but all that would do is prove the idiots out there right, and no one wants that.

This isn’t the first time Arsenal have been tied to a sale of Alexandre Lacazette. Last winter, when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came to town amidst the throes of Lacazette’s struggles, many “experts” concluded that Lacazette was off in the summer. After all, Arsene Wenger would never house two world class strikers.

Even though he did. And he has. And that’s when the club was at it’s peak. So to think that he would never do it again… but I digress.

In the midst of the “doom and gloom” of the modern state of the club, “fans” and “experts” (I’ve had to use quotation marks way too much in these three paragraphs) have been freaking out that the Gunners are headed in the wrong direction, that they’ve become a selling club, that Unai Emery is driving the club into the ground, and that there is just no hope in this bleak forecast for our believed red and white.

Selling Alexandre Lacazette would prove them right. And nobody likes when these kinds of people are proven correct.

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Lacazette isn’t scoring 30 goals, and chances are, he probably won’t. But the intangibles are what make him so valuable and, despite the struggles that the club has had as a whole, the one thing that Arsenal has that no other club in the Premier League has is a world class striking partnership. Literally no other club can have such a prolific pair up top.

The problem isn’t in their partnership, but what happens around it. Give them the supporting cast they need and they will thrive in ways that no defense can cope with because they are both world class, and they are both unique in their abilities.

Not to mention the fact that if we sell Lacazette, he will be moving to another top tier club, the likes of which we are trying to compete against. The era of selling our best players to rival clubs is over and the more we can move away from that era, the sooner we can be taken seriously again.

This is a bad idea no matter how you spin it, and I hate that I am even here talking about it. Thankfully, it looks massively unfounded, so let’s hope it stays that way.