The signing of Alexandre Lacazette is obviously a landmark one for Arsenal.

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No more excuses

No longer can fans or Arsene Wenger point to the squad and say, “we don’t have the players.” Gone are the days of “if the only had a defensive midfielder,” “what Arsenal really need is a top striker,” etc.

The squad is both complete and deep.

Assuming the club finds some courage and keeps Alexis and Hector, here is the projected starting 11:

  • Alexandre Lacazette: 20+ goals four years running, 37 goals last season, French international
  • Alexis Sanchez: Chile all time top scorer, 2 Copa America titles, 30 goals last season
  • Mesut Özil: World Cup winner, 84 Germany caps
  • Aaron Ramsey: led Wales to European Semifinals (WALES!)
  • Granit Xhaka: Swiss captain
  • Sead Kolasinac: 2016-2017 Bundesliga Team of the Season, Bosnia and Herzegovina international
  • Rob Holding: 2015-2016 Bolton Player of the Season, England U21 international
  • Laurent Koscielny: France international, 47 caps
  • Shkodran Mustafi: World Cup winner
  • Hector Bellerín: Spain international wanted desperately by Barcelona
  • Petr Cech: Former Czech international, Champions League winner and multiple Premier League winner

If you exchanged the red and white of Arsenal for the colours of another top club in Europe, people would say there is no reason that team should not win their domestic title and at least be in the semifinals in Europe.

But because it is Arsenal, we are all just trying to get back into the top four.

The mentality MUST change.

This squad is good enough.

There are full fledged European internationals on the bench, for goodness’ sake.

The Arsenal team as currently constructed is good enough to win multiple trophies.

The only question is, will they?

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