Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
Maybe not but I don't think AW will really want to sell him.

I’m not sure Lacazette is as clear cut as the media may have us believing. Their chairman is an awkward bugger to deal with and at some point AW will walk away on the basis of his valuation being exceeded.

Suppose it all depends on the lad Sanchez going or staying, we would not pony the money for Lacazette last summer so to now go an extra 10m-20m seems odd though our needs may have changed.
I don't see the link between Lacazette and Sanchez to be honest. Both can play in the same team and play in different positions. Wenger clearly doesn't rate Giroud highly enough to play him every week, otherwise he wouldn't have picked Danny ****ing Welbeck ahead of him so i don't see us going into the new season with those two as our main striker options even if Sanchez stays. As for what they valued him at last year compared to this, we do have about £40m extra to play with this summer and one of our signings came on a free, so i imagine there's around £100m or so in the budget and they'll probably sign two more players. Last year £100m had to go on a centre back, centre mid and a striker so that might have been why they didn't want to stump up £50m+ for Lacazette.

Just a theory of course. Nobody really knows.