Lacazette Set To Complete £52m Arsenal Move

By Oladipupo Mojeed

Lyon marksman Alexandre Lacazette has all but completed his move to Arsenal following a medical at the club’s London Colney HQ.

The fee for the 26-year-old Frenchman is understood by talkSPORT to be £52million, smashing Arsenal’s transfer record.

The Gunners had an initial bid for the France international rejected, but talks continued.

Lacazette’s move is expected to surpass the £42.4m Arsenal paid Real Madrid for Mesut Ozil in 2013.

With the deal reportedly sealed between both parties, official announcement is imminent from both ends.

Lacazette was second top scorer in Ligue 1 last season with 28 goals.

He has scored 129 goals in 275 matches in all competitions since breaking into the first team in the 2009-10 campaign.

His league tally last season was bettered by only Paris St-Germain’s Edinson Cavani, with 35.