{"id":19900,"date":"2022-06-02T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/02\/alexandre-lacazette-set-to-join-lyon-following-arsenal-departure\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:00:57","slug":"alexandre-lacazette-set-to-join-lyon-following-arsenal-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/02\/alexandre-lacazette-set-to-join-lyon-following-arsenal-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandre Lacazette set to join Lyon following Arsenal departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alexandre Lacazette has agreed to rejoin Lyon this summer as his Arsenal contract comes to an end, according to reports coming out of France.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old joined Arsenal in 2017 for a then club-record fee of \u00a347m, but was overshadowed by the arrival of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang six months later, and failed to live up to the price tag placed on his head.<\/p>\n<p>And, 2021-22 was by far his worst in an Arsenal shirt, with the Frenchman managing just 4 goals, 2 of which came from open play, in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>He was guilty of missing several glorious chances, with the expected goals model suggesting that he should have registered closer to 8 goals than the measly 4 that he achieved.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he was never likely to sign a new deal in north London, and L\u2019Equipe now report that there is an announcement imminent from former club Lyon to bring him back on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">L\u2019OL a convaincu son ancien buteur Alexandre Lacazette de revenir au club, apr\u00e8s cinq saisons \u00e0 Arsenal, o\u00f9 il \u00e9tait en fin de contrat. L\u2019annonce est imminente. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFaUNHvzLv\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/lFaUNHvzLv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L2WhS6yuKB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/L2WhS6yuKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L\u2019\u00c9QUIPE (@lequipe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lequipe\/status\/1532337270837104643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Compromise reached?<\/h2>\n<p>In April, the France forward cast doubt on this ending, suggesting that he wanted to play Champions League football, something that 8th placed Lyon could not offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am in discussions with a lot of clubs. I am open. I want to play in Europe, it\u2019s been a long time since I played in the Champions League, I\u2019m missing it\u2019, the 30-year old told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalplus.com\/sport\/alexande-lacazette-l-interview-cfc\/h\/18658144_50001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Canal plus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked about the potential of a return to Lyon even should they miss out on Europe, Laca played it down, revealing that \u2018Lyon knows that I am free, they have come to the information<i>.\u00a0<\/i>It\u2019s a little more complicated, nothing is impossible in life, but it\u2019s a little more complicated.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that he has sacrificed that outcome in order to return home following his underwhelming Emirates spell.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/arsenal-and-tottenham-target-lautaro-martinez-outlines-summer-plans-following-finalissima-victory\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Arsenal and Tottenham target Lautaro Martinez outlines summer plans following Finalissima victory<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/revealed-how-much-leicester-city-are-demanding-for-youri-tielemans-this-summer\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Revealed: How much Leicester City are demanding for Youri Tielemans this summer<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Lacazette has agreed to rejoin Lyon this summer as his Arsenal contract comes to an end, according to reports coming out of France. The 31-year-old joined Arsenal in 2017 for a then club-record fee of \u00a347m, but was overshadowed by the arrival of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang six months later, and failed to live up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}