Arsenal In Advance Talk With Lyon For Alexandre Lacazette

Arsenal are in talks with Lyon to sign their highly-rated striker Alexandre Lacazette. The Ligue 1 club's president Jean-Michel Aulas has told the forward he can leave for £44m this summer.

Lyon rejected a £29m offer from Arsenal last July, while West Ham also tried and failed to sign him with a club-record £43m offer last summer in their ill-fated pursuit of a top forward. Lacazette verbally agreed to make a move to Atletico Madrid in May, before it was scuppered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport's upholding of a transfer ban imposed on the La Liga club.

Lacazette has said he will only move to a club who are playing in the Champions League, which is not something Arsenal can offer next season but the Gunners are confident of landing the player.