One year wonders and blunders! Football's short stay kings and costly errors

The murmurings are getting louder, and now the legends are chiming in to write his Arsenal obituary already.

He has played in the Premier League little over six months but for some, they’ve already seen enough of French striker Alexandre Lacazette.

Gunners great Emmanuel Petit has waded in on his countryman. His Emirates career is as good as over, says the former midfielder. A man who knows Arsene Wenger more than most says he should be sold in the summer.

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The £52m striker, despite nine goals in 25 appearances for a team who have failed to hit the heights, has many suggesting he is already on his way out.

If that was to be the case, surely that would make him one of the most expensive flops of all time – but not quite the biggest.

That title currently belongs to Angel di Maria, who crashed and burned at Manchester United after his £59.7 move from Real Madrid in 2014. He lasted a matter of eight months before being offloaded to PSG for £44.3m. Signing at the end of August, he didn’t even last a full season.

The greatest exception to the one-year rule is N’golo Kante. He saw out a season at Leicester City but he was top, not a flop. Chelsea came in and he soon had back-to-back Premier League winners’ medals around his neck.

Newcastle United thought they were getting a world class name when they nailed a World Cup winner after France 98.

Stephane Guivarc’h, as it turned out, will forever be remembered as one of the poorest strikers in modern day top flight football. Signed in August, sold in November – Toon fans were thankful there wasn’t a transfer window back then!

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Newcastle never do things the easy way. There was curious optimism when they landed Dutch great Patrick Kluivert in July 2004. It turned out to be a nostalgic nightmare, he lasted a season before seeing the sunshine of Spain again. The striker signed to return Champions League football to St James Park hardly found the net as the team finished in 14th.

It may have just been a loan deal, but we’re claiming Radamel Falcao.

Few strikers had a great reputation quite like his, but even with the service offered up at Old Trafford, his grand total of four goals in 33 appearances proved once and for all that just because you can do it in French football, the Premier League is a whole different ball game. Not that it put Chelsea off before too long.

Juan Sebastian Veron wasn’t considered much of a success in England it’s fair to say but he’s even less well remembered in Parma where he spent less than a year before being ferried out to Lazio where things suddenly starting going right.

Back in 1980, £1.25m was rather a lot of money. Arsenal wrote a big cheque for Clive Allen – and didn’t even play one competitive match!

But it wasn’t his fault. He left Highbury for Crystal Palace in a swap deal with Kenny Sansom. He got pay back for being the makeweight, going on to great things with the Gunners’ big rivals Tottenham!