Arsenal: Who the hell cares about Moise Kean anyway?

Arsenal have the best striking pair in Europe and Nicolas Pepe is on the way to help. So who the hell cares what Moise Kean is doing these days?

Ever want to see what media bias looks like? Consider that Arsenal are on the brink of breaking their transfer record on Nicolas Pepe and the top search result is an article from the Daily Mail saying “Moise Kean REJECTED a move to Arsenal!”

It’s okay, go ahead and laugh. Because yet again we can see how stupid things can be in the world of Arsenal transfer news.

Nicolas Pepe is the biggest capture since Mesut Ozil, and he’ll almost certainly prove to be bigger in time, but don’t worry about that, because Moise Kean had the audacity to disagree with Unai Emery’s assessment that Kean was not, in fact, going to beat out Alexandre Lacazette or Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to a starting role.

Pretty controversial, right? Instead, Kean landed at Everton, where he will likely do quite well for himself, since he’s a talented young man, and at some point the headlines will retarget this whole faux fiasco and remind everyone that the Gunners could have had him.

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Always ignoring that we literally have nowhere to put him.

The true story here is just that—that despite putting in the leg work to acquire this incredibly talented young man, that there just isn’t anywhere we could fit him into an attack that is literally prepped to set the world on fire. Kean would have been a downgrade, and that’s nothing against him. Like I said, he’s a tremendous player.

It’s just more praise for an attack that was already so potent last year and now has even more weapons. Lacazette and Aubameyang really are the best striking pair in the world, and if you add Nicolas Pepe, which we will be soon, then even Mesut Ozil may start looking good with so many options to feed.

That’s the story here. Funny, buried beneath every stupid, click-bait headline, there is a story, but no one wants to spin an honest, positive opinion, they want to turn it negative.

At the end of the day, everyone got what was best for them. Kean has a team that he can learn and grow with, the Gunners have an attack that can hopefully cope with a defense still in need of repair, and the “news” outlets got their fodder.