Thomas Lemar skies shot and takes shockingly bad free-kick
Arsenal are trying to sign the France star as Alexis Sanchez edges closer to a move to Manchester City.
City have bid £55m plus £5m in add ons for the Chile star but Arsenal will only sell if they can secure a replacement.
And Laurens thinks it could be Lemar but says they’d need to pay around £78m.
“Yes, I think so,” Laurens said on talkSPORT when asked if Arsenal could get their man.
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Thomas Lemar could still join Arsenal today
“The club has some ideas with who they could replace him, but it’s a very short time left to try to replace someone like Lemar.
That’s why they gave a bit of the cold shoulder to Liverpool when they came in with the big offer in the last 48 hours and I think it might be similar with Arsenal.
“However if Arsenal put a lot of money down on the table, it’s a player that they’ve chased all summer, that Arsene Wenger absolutely loves. Now he would probably have to pay 80-85million euros.”
Arsenal have already lost Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to Liverpool today, so to lose Sanchez would leave them in crisis.
But if they could capture Lemar to go along with Alexandre Lacazette they would have a new look in attack.
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