I suspect at £50m people expect a superstar, a marquee forward signing etc. He is also coming from Ligue1 which some people will have reservations about, though the same people would suck your gonads at the prospect of signing Mbappe.
Lacazette is neither superstar nor marquee however he may well turn out to be absolutely brilliant for us and the fee soon forgotten, until he has a few shít games and it will come up.
There is then the Sanchez issue – has he been signed to play with or as some form of direct or indirect replacement, the former and he undoubtedly strengthens us, the latter and who knows.
Sadly in modern football £50m is no longer that expensive.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
He will score goals, of that I have no doubt at all. On that basis the signing will be a success.
Will we win the league, the champions league, will we even qualify for it next season or the season after, who knows. Will his signing and the associated cost be viewed in this way?
I have read people commenting that we spent 100m last summer on Mustafi, Xhaka and others yet finished 5th so in effect we spent 100m and ended up worse. A naïve and schoolboy analysis of events which overlooks the quality of the individual players.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."