It’s strange how quickly consensus shifts in football. In May 2019, Alex Lacazette was voted Arsenal’s player of the season by Arsenal fans. Fast forward one year and, in my Arsenal bubble at least, the majority would like to see him sold. I don’t sense any hostility towards him; but the club have made a host of poor decisions on contracts and transfers in recent years that don’t need recounting here. In that context, we have all become amateur squad builders [none more so than myself] as we search for parts that we can sell to fund a rebuild. The club are not inclined to give Lacazette a new deal with two years left to run on his current contract- that tells you they would be...
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