Lacazette could become the Premier League’s best at Arsenal

Lacazette could become the Premier League’s best at Arsenal

Arsenal are edging ever closer to signing Alexandre Lacazette in a club-record deal from Lyon, with the fee eclipsing the £42.5m the Gunners paid Real Madrid for Mesut Ozil in 2013- and it’s another signing that should send shockwaves throughout the Premier League.

Arsene Wenger’s willingness to spend big shows he’s moved away from the period where he’d be reluctant to make big waves on the market and continues a trend he’s shown in recent years, where the likes of Ozil, Alexis Sanchez, Shkodran Mustafi and Granit Xhaka have arrived for hefty sums.


Whilst those players have either arrived from smaller clubs in Europe and have a lot to show in the coming years, or come from a European giant that no longer has a place for them, Lacazette arrives in the peak of his abilities- and it’s great news for Arsenal.

Boasting a whopping 37 goals across all competitions last season, a number that hasn’t been bettered at Arsenal since Thierry Henry in the 2003/04 Premier League winning season, Lacazette has the potential to become the best striker in the Premier League.

With Diego Costa on his way out, Sergio Aguero’s importance to Manchester City decreasing and Zlatan Ibrahimovic being released by Manchester United, the title of best striker within the Premier League is certainly up for grabs.

Lacazette’s likely competition will come from Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane and Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, who could return to Chelsea this summer, but both of those youngsters are yet to hit the sort of numbers Lacazette boasts.

Of course, the Premier League is renowned for being a lot more difficult than French football and Lacazette will have to prove his credentials in his new surroundings- but his exceptional record suggests he should find his feet smoothly.

Supported by the likes of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, providing the star duo stay-put at the Emirates Stadium, Lacazette should have plenty of opportunities to find the back of the net and Arsenal fans will be expecting a lot from their newest recruit.

It remains to be seen exactly how Arsenal will line-up next season, having impressed in the back-end of the last campaign playing with three centre-backs and two wing-backs, but Lacazette is the sort of striker who’d fit into any of the systems the Gunners have utilised in recent years.

With his direct approach, clinical finishing ability and abundance of pace, Lacazette is a force to be reckoned with and rival fans should definitely be wary.