flobaba wrote:
Coombs, how do you know so much about him from highlights? Or do you actively follow the French league?
Summer break, started downloading Lyon games when it became apparent he was our likely striker signing. Honestly, mostly because I hadn't really seen him play and I was amazed at how much people hate the idea of him. I try to keep tabs on Marseille in L1, but I don't watch Lyon regularly, no.
Honestly, Lyon is pretty shit, but players like Fekir and Valbuena really benefit from the way Lacazette plays. He makes space. He also drifts across the front line a lot, but seems to always pop up in the box even if he starts the move out wide.
He's a good striker. I think he's more likely to score a bunch of goals for us than end up a flop, and he might even explode, although I don't think he's got that high of a ceiling. Knowing us, though, he'll probably fail to score in his first 10 games, finally start to look like a decent player after getting his feet, then get injured for a few months. Then Wenger will play him out of position when he comes back because he'll lack sharpness.
He's not anyone's first choice. That includes Wenger. But he's not garbage like people are saying, at least, I haven't seen the games they base such a claim on.
