Arsenal: Grading 11 potential Aaron Ramsey replacement

2. Nabil Fekir / Grade 7.0 / Price £50m

Nabil Fekir was about a millimeter away from stepping into Anfield last summer, and it looks like they are favorites to land him again this year, with Lyon admitting that he will leave in the coming transfer window, but that doesn’t mean that Arsenal can’t play the spoiler here and use their greater opportunity to try to sway Fekir in their favor.

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Of course, we also have his former teammate Alexandre Lacazette to help tip the balance in our favor, so maybe that counts as something as well.

If you want to talk about attacking viability, nobody does better than Fekir. I wanted him to replace Mesut Ozil last summer, and last winter, and the summer before that, so on and so forth. He’s just the better attacking option.

He’s still just 25 and he contributes double-digit goal tallies every single year, including a massive 26 total two seasons ago.

So why then is he only 2nd and a 7.0 on the scale of 1 to Aaron Ramsey? Likelihood. Unfortunately, with the price that he is going to fetch and with Liverpool so clearly ahead in the race, it’s just not that likely that the Gunners can swoop in and steal him away.

Which is why we have two better options on this list. On to No. 1.