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Lucas Perez - our new striker!

Bryant

Klaus wrote:
------------- Giroud -----------
Sanchez --- Özil ----- Perez

Looks like a decent attack to me. Perez to go up front if Giroud is injured or off the boil?

------------- Perez -----------

Sanchez --- Özil ----- James

Looks better! 😛

Klaus

I would do disgusting things to get James! I don't really think he's on the market this summer though.

Klaus

Here's the Perez goal I mentioned earlier, by the way:

IBL

Edu like finish.

Can't believe we're actually doing stuff in the market, finally something to get excited about.

lorddulaarsenal

He looks just the sort of player to compliment Ozil.

Love how he takes little touches and shifts the ball before finishing to disguise what he's doing and to make the finish easier

He actually reminds me of quite a few players. Bit of a morph of Suarez, Vardy and Vela

Bold Tone

I know very little about this guy as all i've seen are highlight clips which have underwhelmed me in that he seems to thrive on chaos which is the opposite of how Wenger sets up his teams. The positive is filling a hole in our game and pleasing Ozil and Xhaka with his runs into space but, much like Podolski, i do not see Wenger ever trusting him at point.

Clrnc

Anyway, 17m for him is pretty decent all things considered. It could be a lot worse, just ask West Ham fans what they think about paying 28m for Zaza.

lorddulaarsenal

Bit concerned Mustafi didn't stop the first goal in the comp above

Or is that a good thing which shows Lucas is the nuts?

So confused

Bold Tone

Clrnc wrote:
Anyway, 17m for him is pretty decent all things considered. It could be a lot worse, just ask West Ham fans what they think about paying 28m for Zaza.

Just as Perez turned down Leicester, Southampton, Napoli, Zenit and Sevilla this summer, unglamorous teams like West Ham have to pay a premium to convince players to join them so it was 28m or nothing.

invisibleman18

Never heard of him before the link came up the other day. On paper looks a bit like a budget journeyman option who has scored double figures for a season once in his career. But we're at the point where we just need someone so would have to be better than the options we already have for when Giroud breaks down.

Sicario

Spanish Robbie Keane

General

The new Raul

Eduardo da Silva type signing. Let's hope he can chip in with a decent goal output.
I think he'll end up on the wings and won't play the lone striker role too often.

awooga83

Petty much the same as most of you, never heard of him. Seems to have a decent scoring record but hardly looks like he is the going to be the player to take us to that next level. Hope he does well for us and demonstrates his quality but he certainly does not seem like he was in our top targets so is this the real quality Wenger has referred to.

banduan

So this is our madness...

Gazza M

fingers crossed he has a late career explosion vardy/payet style. plucky unheralded vets are in vogue atm

Cannon

Cannon wrote:
Rohit wrote:
VillaverdeRCD #21 @VillaverdeRCD 8:07 PM - 9 Jun 2016
El bielorruso dice que si Vardy no va al Arsenal,el Arsenal terminará por fichar a Lucas Pérez,al que ya vinieron a ver en invierno a Riazor

Above user claimed in June itself that we will sign Lucas Perez if we fail with Vardy #ITK

Yeah i saw this. He goes on to say that apparently there is an AFC scout who hails from Galicia, same region as Deportivo and perez. He scouted perez over 'winter' and gave this info.

Edit: You have to wonder why we waited...

I thought about this. I think one reason could be that we did not want to show our hand/overpay or worse lose the player. Had we approached him/depor in june, the depor could have sat on it and asked other clubs to bid just to increase the price. Or even clubs like west ham/spurs could have offered player BIG wages. By hijacking the everton deal we have essentially matched their offer and possibly wages and lured him by the prospect of playing CL and for a bigger club. Just a theory though.

EDIT: i meant to imply losing the player as well. Have edited that in. I can understand he was our backup option.

invisibleman18

If that's the case then I hope the savings are worth the 5-8 points dropped by going into the season under-manned.

Clrnc

Cannon wrote:
Cannon wrote:
Yeah i saw this. He goes on to say that apparently there is an AFC scout who hails from Galicia, same region as Deportivo and perez. He scouted perez over 'winter' and gave this info.

Edit: You have to wonder why we waited...

I thought about this. I think one reason could be that we did not want to show our hand or overpay. Had we approached him/depor in june, the depor could have sat on it and asked other clubs to bid just to increase the price. Or even clubs like west ham/spurs could have offered player BIG wages. By hijacking the everton deal we have essentially matched their offer and possibly wages and lured him by the prospect of playing CL and for a bigger club. Just a theory though.

Doesn't work at all since he has a 20m euro release clause.

Mirth

Cannon wrote:
Cannon wrote:
Yeah i saw this. He goes on to say that apparently there is an AFC scout who hails from Galicia, same region as Deportivo and perez. He scouted perez over 'winter' and gave this info.

Edit: You have to wonder why we waited...

I thought about this. I think one reason could be that we did not want to show our hand or overpay. Had we approached him/depor in june, the depor could have sat on it and asked other clubs to bid just to increase the price. Or even clubs like west ham/spurs could have offered player BIG wages. By hijacking the everton deal we have essentially matched their offer and possibly wages and lured him by the prospect of playing CL and for a bigger club. Just a theory though.

That's a bonkers theory because we did approach at least two strikers in June and July respectively

Rohit

The most accurate explanation is often the simplest and obvious one. We got him because he had been on our radar. We failed with other preferred options and Everton were closing in on him. For once we bought a forward we were looking at rather than end empty handed. I don't believe the outlay on him changes our position if a quality forward becomes available.

Theories also doing the round - he is brought in to replace Campbell and indicate to selling clubs we aren't desperate for a striker any more.

If we can actually sign that forward we need, it will be the greatest window ever.

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