even if i don't watch them, it just seems like there are more than enough quality looking strikers out there where if you're a professional scout or manager you should be able to identify talent and sign someone.

Dont know who that guy is tbh as i dont watch Deportivo, but any help Giroud can get is welcome.

Hate to be the spoil sport but, link please or this gets locked.

17'goals and 8 assists seems an OK return for a guy playing for deportivo.

looks like he's been bouncing around between some smaller clubs most of his career, and last season was the best he's had so far. i haven't watched a deportivo game in about 12 years though, so i have no idea if he's actually good

Would take anyone at this point for when Giroud inevitable breaks down being forced to play every game. Same applies to CB with Koscielny currently having to play through a back injury.

Involved in 27 goals last season, compared to 24 from Lacazette for example. €20m buyout clause is a steal.

Has an Eduardo type feel about it. Under the radar and out of the blue.

Where's the link? He's a good player always had a similar style to David Villa. Probably made up rumours again.

Cool. We are getting the Spanish Defoe.

Savz wrote:

Where's the link? He's a good player always had a similar style to David Villa. Probably made up rumours again.

http://www.marca.com/futbol/deportivo/2016/08/25/57be19efe2704ed4278b462d.html

[size=medium][font=PTregular, Georgia]l Arsenal is the fate of Lucas Pérez for the next three or four seasons. Except turnabout during the day, the Galician front gunner player will be tomorrow.During yesterday, in Corunna, it was total agreement between the two clubs for the transfer of the player. In the end, Arsenal will pay the termination clause of Lucas Pérez -20 million euros, and striker Arsene Wenger will he ever wanted.[/font][/size]

[size=medium][font=PTregular, Georgia]In La Coruna already they started pasada- nothing more to finish the season to get used to the idea that their franchise player leave the team. And at the end, so it will happen. Of course, Lucas is going through the front door and leaving the coffers of the club deportivista 20 kilos.[/font][/size]
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[size=medium][font=PTregular, Georgia]So, the Galician club Deportiva address is already working on the idea of being left without their star player, just a few days after the end of the market.[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=PTregular, Georgia]The ball is now on the roof of the player, who must give Yes I want to Arsenal.Since its environment is recognized that there that offer, but still maintain the discourse that, if a trigger event occurs, this would always with the approval of Deportivo.[/font][/size]

We were linked with him last season too during the winter transfer window. We probably have tracked him for a long time. Seems like we have given up on other preferred forwards for one reason or the other. Hope he is good enough to compete with Giroud.

A left footer too - comes in handy for some variety.

I don't know much about this cat, but I watched him score an insane goal last season against either Athletic Bilbao or Atletico Madrid. He basically assisted himself.

I don't think he played as a striker in that game though. Maybe we're going to use him on the wing?

he's got a diet suarez look about him. suarez is a striker, but played on the wing a fair bit in holland and even for liverpool because he was a good creator/dribbler. hopefully he's earmarked to play through the middle for us, if we do get him

Sounds like value for money.

Low double digit return on goals and an economical scrape into the top four.

At least he's six odd feet tall.

Five feet eleven and a half to be precise.

Nice piece here on him from Sid Lowe in The Guardian last December - https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/dec/21/lucas-perez-deportivo-de-la-coruna-bebeto-record

Sounds like he's a humble hard working team player. The only reservation from reading that is that he may also be a little bit Jose Antonio Reyes and get homesick. He is 28 next month though and hopefully will be more mature and adjusted than Reyes was.

I can learn to like this.

Get it done Wenger

Classic Wenger. Spend the window dithering and failing to seriously pursue top quality players, and then have to settle for some budget option that none of us bave heard of.

Claudius wrote:

Cool. We are getting the Spanish Defoe.

A 27yr old Defoe wouldn't be such a bad addition to be fair.

This guy has had a pretty underwhelming career to say the least though, 28 next month too 😆

Not sure I believe this but I'd still take him, at this stage I'd take anyone. A striker of this pedigree would be complemented by a top class forward (James?) in the ideal world.

I heard that he is the Spanish DJ Campbell though.

Left footer, good at throwing defenders off balance, decent pace and team ethic. Looks solid

We're gonna need to take a punt on a late bloomer or youth prospect. There are no top strikers moving bar a fat higgy for 70-80m.

Benteke would've been better than this guy.

Hopefully he's better than place level.

A bit meh but I suppose this is as good as we can realistically get. Glad that it's not a youth prospect but an experienced player we're taking a punt on so that he can provide proper competition for Giroud over the course of the season.

Gunner89 wrote:

Benteke would've been better than this guy.

Sure. One donkey in Giroud isn't enough, let's sign another.

As Wenger would say "I'm sorry he didn't cost 50M". Seems like prices really influence people's opinion on players. Dickheads like Benteke and Lukaku are wanted when they cost shitloads of money even though they truly are woeful footballers.

Haven't seen this guy play, only heard of him since we were linked last winter. His profile looks good though, interesting player.

I would have thought Benteke failing miserably at a higher level would have opened people's eyes but apparently not.

If he can even remotely reproduce the form he had early last season we'll have found our Suárez, and I genuinely don't think you'd have to add a "light" to his name. He was unplayable for a couple months, much like Suárez was for Pool but I also see similarities to Diego Costa when he was at Atlético in that he often was the only player in the opposite half and still managed to score goals out of very little.

Intelligent on the pitch, incredible work rate, deadly in front of goal when he's in form. His form waned a bit in the second half but he still had a good return for a team that spends most of the season fighting relegation. If he can torture defences like Atlético's or Barcelona's then he wouldn't have too many troubles translating it to the EPL. Seriously, just watch some of the goals he scored last season, I'd genuinely rather pay 90m for this guy than 30m for Benteke.

The fact that he has a high number of assists too along with the goals speaks about him as a player. I haven't seen him but he obviously has vision and awareness too. I am sure his technique is solid. We have followed him obviously, we were linked in December. He was way down in our list but with our top options not working out and Everton agreeing a deal with Deportivo for him it's fine that we have swooped in rather than lose out.

Age doesn't really matter. Who had heard much of Robert Pires before he joined us at 26/ 27.

It's very different now with scouting very strong across clubs but he won't be the first late bloomer. People were going crazy about Payet not very long ago.

I remember Deportivo needed a draw to avoid relegation at the end of the 14/15 season and their last game was against Barca who didn't need anything from the match as La Liga was already won...

So Barca go 2-0 up and Lucaz Perez starts talking to all the Barca players begging them not to score and to give them a chance. He begged Messi to put aside his pride for Deportivo just once... Says please to Neymar... Talks to Mascherano during a break in play.

Deportivo scored twice and they stay up. Lucas Perez scores the first and as he runs back to his half he says Por Favor to Messi... Which is thank you. Says thank you post game to some other players too.

No way you could prove Barca players followed what he said but it is pure emotion with Perez.

Suddenly the Joel Campbell loan makes more sense.

We need numbers just as much as we need quality. As long as Perez isn't more of the same, he'll be useful (on paper).

Savz wrote:

I remember Deportivo needed a draw to avoid relegation at the end of the 14/15 season and their last game was against Barca who didn't need anything from the match as La Liga was alreadg won...  

So Barca go 2-0 up and Lucaz Perez starts talking to all the Barca players begging them not to score and to give them a chance. He begged Messi to put aside his pride for Deportivo just once...  Says please to Neymar... Talks to Mascherano during a break in play.

Deportivo scored twice and they stay up.  Lucas Perez scores the first and as he runs back to his half he says Por Favor to Messi... Which is thank you. Says thank you post game to some other players too.

No way you could prove Barca players followed what he said but it is pure emotion with Perez.

😆

Could have used him at the Swansea game last season... 'just let us win you cunts this game means nothing to you'