London club, West Ham, are desperate to sign Arsenal hitman Olivier Giroud, according to reports online.
This follows the unreliability of the capital club's strikers.
Giroud is clearly a good player when on form. He has scored 98 goals in 227 games, and has also provided 41 assists.
Yet there is something of the mysterious about him. Giroud has never truly led by example. He is emblematic of a serious problem at Arsenal. He's all style - and it cannot be denied that Giroud has style coming out of his ears - but very little substance.
West Ham believe they could extricate Giroud from Arsenal for a fee of £20 million. A four-year deal would then be placed on the table, along with a weekly wage of £100,000. That would take the total outlay to £40.8m, for a player who turns 31 in September.
And also Giroud is not as injury prone, but he plays in a similar vein and there will be fears around the London Stadium of history repeating itself with the Arsenal striker.