Arteta left the “machine for goal” to go for £ 0, now he plays like Kane

Regarding the best academies in world football, the end of Hale d’Arsenal must rank up there.

Northern Londoners have a proud story of producing real world players like Tony Adams, Ashley Cole and David Rocastle.

This incredible talented treadmill continued in the present with Bukayo Saka, Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly all used to the first team.

Unfortunately, with so many incredible players who cross the system, Arsenal is forced to leave a little through the shortcomings, which happened with Harry Kane.

Worse, another star who left the club under Mikel Arteta was recently compared to the captain of England.

The young arsenal let the gaps pass

Before arriving in Kane, it is worth looking at a few other young people, Arsenal, let their fingers pass, like Michael Olise.

Yes, even if it is not so widely known, before spending time in the academies of Chelsea, Manchester City and Reading, the French superstar spent time with the Gunners.

The only saving grace here is that its potential return to Stamford Bridge a few years ago has collapsed, because its incredible production of 24 goals and 25 assists for Bayern Munich could have seen the Blues become a real title rival.

Stop with Bayern players, and another young person that the Gunners should have maintained was Serge Gnabry.

Now the German has come out of Hale End, and even played matches under Arsène Wenger, but after a bad loan move to West Bromwich Albion, the Northern Londoners sold it to Werder Bremen for around 5 million pounds sterling.

It was a huge mistake, because a year later, the Bavarian giants came for him and, after a year on loan, he would become a serious star for them, accumulating 159 goals in 291 games.

Finally, the most infamous example of Arsenal releasing a too young player is the now legendary Kane, who had been released at only 12 years due to concerns that he was simply not good enough.

Since then, the captain of England has regretted the Gunners of this decision repeatedly, with a scandalous total of 402 goals and 108 assists in 616 games.

In addition, his record against the Northern Londoners is scandalous, with him scoring 15 goals and providing two assists in just 21 appearances.

In short, Arsenal was wrong with regard to Kane, and now, a player who has left for Arteta has since been compared to him.

The former arsenal star compared to Kane

Thinking of the former arsenal players who could have been compared to Kane, your mind could immediately go to someone who was prolific for the club, like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

However, instead of the Gabonese phenomenon, the player in question is his former attacker’s partner, Alexandre Lacazette.

Yes, even if it could be somewhat surprising, the 34 -year -old man is the attacker who was compared to the AS of Bayern, and he stems from Fbren.

They compare the players in similar positions in the top five leagues in Europe, the Champions League and the Europa League, then create a list of the ten most comparable players for each, and in this case, concluded that English was the fifth before the most similar to the French in the last 365 days – before its move to Neom SC in Saudi Pro League.

We can better understand how this conclusion was concluded by examining some of the underlying numbers in which the pair ran out closely.

These include measures such as, but without limiting themselves, gradual ranges, shooting goals, expected non-penalty goals, blocks, decisive passes and more, all for 90.

Now, no one would try to claim that the former AS Gunners, who left the club for nothing in 2022, is as good a player as the former Spurs star.

However, in addition to the statistical similarities, he appreciated something of a career renewal on his return to France, and before leaving for Saudi Arabia.

For example, during his first season with Lyon, the dangerous “goal machine”, as nicknamed by former teammate Sokratis, scored 31 goals and provided six assists in 39 games, which he then followed with 22 goals and five assists in 35 games per after season, before winning 19 goals and three assists in 42 games last year.

In the end, it was probably fair to let Lacazette leave when he did it, but we cannot help but ask ourselves if Arteta and Co wanted them to hold it for a season or two, given its shape in recent years.