Report: Lacazette to travel to London to secure £52M Arsenal switch

Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette will travel to London to complete a move to Arsenal for a reported club-record fee of £52 million.

Arsenal has agreed a £46-million fee for the French international striker that could rise to £52 million with performance-related add-ons, according to a report from the Telegraph's Matt Law.

That amount would trump the £42.5 million the Gunners paid Real Madrid for Mesut Ozil, with a £6 million additional fee divided between two achievement-related add-on clauses.

Earlier Sunday, Les Gones chairman Jean-Michel Aulas conceded that Lacazette was not in London, but that Arsenal had tabled an improved bid for the goal poacher.

For Arsenal, Lacazette's addition would be a welcomed transfer for a club that notoriously leaves its summer business late, especially after the 26-year-old appeared destined to join Les Bleus mate Antoine Griezmann at Atletico Madrid. An upheld transfer ban blocked that move, and now Arsenal is close to securing its man.

The Lyon-born forward has been one of Europe's most efficient goal-scorers since promotion to the first-team in 2010. Lacazette has scored no fewer than 21 Ligue 1 goals in each of his last three campaigns and a century of tallies for Les Gones in all comps.

With Lacazette sorted, Arsenal will again shift its focus to re-signing Alexis Sanchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Ozil, all of whom have deals that expire next summer. It's uncertain what impact Lacazette's signing will have on Sanchez, who is understood to be partial to a move to Manchester City.