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Striker Alexandre Lacazette returns to Olympique Lyonnais. The club formalized Thursday the return to the fold of the former resident of its training center.
A homecoming for Alexandre Lacazette. The French striker signed for three seasons with his training club, Olympique Lyonnais (OL), five years after being transferred to England. The club made the transfer official on Thursday, June 9.
At the end of the contract across the Channel, the French international has signed up with OL until June 30, 2025, according to a press release from the Lyon club. The player passed his medical examination on Wednesday and a press conference of presentation takes place in his presence on Thursday morning.
The return of Lacazette had been “a priority for several months” for OL which, 8e of the last season of Ligue 1, aims “to breathe new life into it”, indicates the press release.
Aged 31, Lacazette, transferred to Arsenal in July 2017 for 60 million euros (bonus included), played 206 matches there and scored 71 goals. This season, he has played 36 games, for six goals and eight assists.
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— Arsenal (@Arsenal) June 3, 2022
The striker has 16 caps for the France team (three goals) between 2013 and 2017. A native of Lyon, he was trained at OL, where he arrived in 2003 and started as a professional from 2010 under the Claude Puel era, scoring a total of 129 goals in 275 matches.
Alexandre Lacazette was the first goalscorer in January 2016 at Groupama Stadium in Décines-Charpieu and holds the record for goals scored at OL in an L1 season (28 goals in 2016/17).
“Thank you, Laca”: Arsenal had thus welcomed the departure of Lacazette last Friday who, in the jersey of the London club, will have won an FA Cup in 2020, a Community Shield in 2017, and lost a Europa League final in 2019, without managing to play the Champions League with the Gunners.
With AFP