The arrival from Reims adds to the attacking quality under Unai Emery, but it remains to be seen if they battle hard for La Liga title
It would be churlish to overly criticise Boulaye Dia’s climax to the 2020/21 season with Stade de Reims, despite a goal drought to close out the campaign.
Having netted 12 Ligue 1 goals in the first half of the campaign — he featured 17 times in that time — only two more strikes followed for the Red and Whites after the midway point. There was a 10-game drought in that time and another seven games without scoring in the campaign’s denouement.