Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I have no doubt they will respond if we increase our offer, they responded to West Ham's offers so I see no reason why they wouldn't follow suite with us. I personally think their stance is that they do not want to sell but would sell at a price they deem suitable to compensate themselves. Lacazette has a part to play in this too and if he wants to join us then he's going to need to go public about it.

I never suggested we increase our offer to what is their supposed valuation but we need to get serious if we are serious about the player and the player is serious about us. The 2nd offer should be somewhere near their valuation if they have one, I suppose what I'm trying to say here is that we shouldn't be sitting their waiting for Lyon to bend over backwards for us.

Edited to add: Rumours going around that offer was earlier in the summer for Lacazette so it seems it was a opportunist punt
Lyon have denied receiving a £40m bid so that's a hint at what they could be looking for. Regardless, our approach needs to change if we're serious about needing a pacey striker. We haven't come in with our best bid from the sound of things.