Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang: Auba And Out

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Again: Cancelled salary payments is not a fee.

Nobody said it was? But you can’t overlook the significance of getting £350k p/w off the books entirely. No chance.

Arteta is going to rebuild his own building after tearing it apart. The majority of the players that left last month was signed/extended/persuaded to stay by him. Maybe we should get a new manager that actually can build a building.

How much of that is down to Edu? They’re all okay ish players but the ones Mikel pushed for have all done pretty well. I think we should try a few obvious solutions rather than try and be shrewd all the time.

 

[OnlyOne]

No I agree he should've got a new contract, but a lot of people are defending the club saying he's been in decline for ages which would suggest a one-year extension would have been the better move.

He hasn’t been in decline, he wasn’t at all when he signed on. A bit like Özil he was the best we’d ever seen him when he was signed on.

No idea what happened, definitely a mix of Mikels football, wanting him to play a lone CF and switching to 4atb didn’t help but maybe it’s one of those things in football where one day that 30+ year old goes off the cliff.

 

[Messigican]

Oh dear. You were so quick to take the W. I'm guessing now (from your point of view) you will take the big L.

Not at all

Huge pay cut

Free transfer

6 months with optional1 year

Great deal!

 

[El Duderino]

 

[BaZZe]

I remember the overwhelming majority being in favour of dropping him and criticised him for his atrocious form since signing the contract.

Club is proactive and played a blinder getting a 32/33 year old's huge wages off the wage bill and the club are criticised?

You just can't win with our fanbase. You really can't. Whinge, whinge, whinge.

I pointed this out earlier, this also applies to the likes of Guendouzi.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Deal official. Nice send off at least.

 

[NieThePiet]

You will be for every a big part in Arsenal's history, especially with his two goals in the FA Cup Final.
Fastest player ever to score 50 goals for this club.

Very sad it ended like this. Thanks Auba, go & enjoy the last years of your career

 

[Sammy1887]

**** Arteta man.

 

[El Duderino]

goodbye, sweet prince.

Hopefully not our last super star player in the forseeable future.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Best of luck to him. Nothing personal but I hope he plays well without being prolific.

 

[Oxeki]

I will miss you.

 

[Sanchez11]

I hope that is the end of this giveaway trend.

 

[boxerumble]

The dude was a gem of a personality. Always bothered me seeing him down / unhappy during games. His vibrant personality was such a breath of fresh air. Hope he bangs them in at the Camp Nou

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

No more need to say he best goal scorer we had since rvp and maybe Alexis. 60m spent well despite playing with unbalanced teams 2 different managers different tactics he always delivered it only took a bad and long decline to stop him breaking records.

115 g/a in 162 games at Arsenal is enough said. Top striker hope he rediscover some of his form at barca and stay away from troubles off pitch

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Did we get rid of him?

I took Xanax and melatonin around 22:30 yesterday and was completely out of it.

 

[Penn_]

I remember the overwhelming majority being in favour of dropping him and criticised him for his atrocious form since signing the contract.

Club is proactive and played a blinder getting a 32/33 year old's huge wages off the wage bill and the club are criticised?

You just can't win with our fanbase. You really can't. Whinge, whinge, whinge.

Are you being purposely obtuse? People are annoyed we’ve let him go without a replacement not that his simply gone.

Granted there’s a few over the top reactions of top four being over. But, do you really prefer Nketiah over Auba?

But, for what it’s worth, yes the club do deserve credit for rectifying a poor situation quickly.

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

Wonder if this departure will effect Lacazettes morale? We need to be careful with the balance in the team. Imagine Laca and Xhaka leave in the summer aswell, Partey will be left all alone.

 

[El Duderino]

 

[Football Head]

Though I was in favour of him being benched due to his drop-off in goals (which in hindsight could be seen as Arteta's lack of tactical nous) it's sad to see our only superstar leave. He could easily have been integrated back.

But who has had a more detrimental and negative impact on our performances ... Auba or Xhaka ?

Shocking beyond belief and bizarre that one can be given an extended contract and an arm around him while another is treated like dirt.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Wonder if this departure will effect Lacazettes morale? We need to be careful with the balance in the team. Imagine Laca and Xhaka leave in the summer aswell, Partey will be left all alone.

The squad will miss him because he popular character specially with youngsters. Similar to Luiz no matter what they do their teammates will like them. Laca will miss him for sure but he gone in 4 months too