Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas claims the club will refuse any bid for Alexandre Lacazette from July onwards, irrelevant of the fee offered. “If on 28th August, we are offered €80m for Alexandre Lacazette, he will not leave,” Aulas told French newspaper L’Equipe. ‘However, if he comes to me in the days to come, because he has an offer he cannot refuse, it’s possible. Finally, if there must be departures, they will be before June 30. There will be none after, except for minor players.”
West Ham have already put in a bid of £31m only to have it rejected but a widely rumoured bid from PSG has yet to materialise. West Ham are sais to be happy to play a waiting game but that game will run out in less than a month’s time if Aulas sticks to his word.
The 24-year-old has excelled once again this season, having followed up his Ligue 1-leading haul of 27 goals in 2014/15 with an impressive 21 goals this term – second only to Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Of the strikers “linked”, Lacazette would be my top call, however the fact that a deal has not been done is less to do with the club and Aulas than Lacazette himself.
He wants bigger than we are at this point in time – Champions League and the reported interest of “top” European clubs would turn the head of any successful young striker.
I can’t see us making any progress with him, but would be really happy to be proven wrong.
Why ain’t he in the french squad ? Anyone know ?
On top of that his club are all of a sudden trying to force a sale by the end of the month ,
Starts to make you think , they refused 31 mill ? If that’s true then he doesn’t want to come !
Personally I would go for the batman , as rads said its all a load of bollox all this talk , but it eats at you . I still believe we need to strengthen the back four and midfield , let Valencia go .
The lad can’t hack the prem, shame but true . R/b c/h 2 classy m/f’s and a striker to add to carol and sakho ,