Arsenal: All gloriously quiet on the Alexandre Lacazette front

Arsenal are bound to be linked to a relentless stream of transfer rumors, but at least it’s all quiet on the Alexandre Lacazette front. The best way to be.

After that horrid loss to Chelsea in the Europa League final, doubt was cast across the current state of a lot of the senior players at Arsenal, and whether they’d be fed up with another year in the Europa League and thus vie for a transfer. Alexandre Lacazette was one of the first guys to hit that news wave.

Rumors immediately sprung up that Barcelona were in on him, willing to pay their usual ridiculous sum of money in order to pry him away from the Emirates and leave us with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who wasn’t looking a sure stay either.

Given that Alexandre Lacazette was our player of the season, seeing him tied to an exit was less than enthralling. He accounted for so much last year that the idea of losing him was downright terrifying. Even in talks of breaking up the duo, it was nearly unanimously “sell Aubameyang” first.

While the “sell Aubameyang” train is still rumbling forward, the rumors linking Lacazette to an exit died off a month ago. Which is pretty remarkable, seeing as how literally every Arsenal player is linked to an exit these days.

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May 31st is the last article I found that mentioned anything about an exit. The top news results when digging into his name now reveal his beach vacations and relaxation time. Which is just the right kind of boring.

It’s therefore looking like Alexandre Lacazette is happy in North London, despite the disappointments, because not even the media is trying to raise a stink about his future at the Emirates. You might say they have plenty of other players to raise a stink about, but you know how this works. If there was even a whiff of movement for Arsenal’s player of the season, it would be all over the news now.

But it’s not. It’s completely quiet. And I think this means we can all breathe a sigh of relief in knowing that we are still going to have our best player next year, no matter who else we might decide to sell in the process.

The big question is if Aubameyang will still be there with him, and what affect that potential absence will have. Breaking up the duo is dicey, but we won’t know the full effect until it happens.