If we play him upfront and get Grealish, then he should be getting at least that.
If Arteta plays him out wide and don’t seriously strengthen our midfield then we could see a similar season to what we’ve just had.
It’s down to the board and Arteta to get the best out of our best player.
This is pretty much the end of the discussion for me. Having two strikers who are both so entirely limited outside scoring goals has destroyed this club.
The reality is that Lacazette’s hold up is about 7 percent stronger than Auba’s. While Auba goal scoring is about 70 percent greater than Lacazette’s.
Getting Laca out of the club would be low key as great of victory as the removal of Xhaka or Mustafi. He’s a better player than those two but he’s disastrous for our balance.
I think as fans we’ve been terrible to him too. Not that online presence - Reddit, Twitter-represents true fandom or appreciation but we’ve been so terribly fickle during a really hard year for the man. Right off the back of him single handedly pulling his 10 team mates to an FA Cup victory against two gross money clubs.
I’d absolutely love to see him have another couple of seasons of scoring buttloads of goals and pulling us up the league table. This is just going to be a massive year in general and I’d love to see Auba succeed and Arteta, but the two are very dependent on each other. Finally time to build a team that revolves around Auba at CF and gets the ball to him in the box at every opportunity.
With the right players around him and Arteta actually playing him in his preferred position, we could see him back to the form he was in a couple of seasons ago.
If we get a goal scoring midfielder, to play with Aubameyang, our attack might look a lot more effective than it did last season and we might see more goals.