Lacazette completes Arsenal medical before club-record transfer

Olympique Lyonnais striker Alexandre Lacazette has undergone a successful medical at Arsenal ahead of his £52.7 million ($90 million) move, according to reports in the UK.

The deal, which includes add-ons, should be completed before Arsene Wenger's squad flies to Australia on Sunday and will be for a club-record fee, beating the £42.5 million ($72 million) Arsenal paid Real Madrid for Mesut Ozil in 2013.

Lacazette's arrival is Wenger's first piece of significant business in the transfer window and follows the promise from chief-executive Ivan Gazidis last week that "top quality" summer signings would arrive this summer.

Arsenal are now likely to end their widely reported interest in Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe and Lacazette's signing could also mean the departure from Arsenal of another French international, Olivier Giroud, who struggled to hold down a first-team place last season.

For Lacazette, 26, the move to London represents a return to the ground where he began his professional career seven years ago, playing for Lyon against Celtic in an Emirates Cup match.
Since then he has developed into one of Europe's most prolific strikers, scoring 129 goals in 275 games for his hometown club.

Lacazette is Arsenal's second signing this summer after Schalke left-back Sead Kolasinac, who arrived on a free transfer and trained with his new teammates for the first time at the club's London Colney complex on Tuesday.