Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could spend the second half of this season on loan at Barcelona, but time is running out for the deal to be completed.
The Gabon star has been sidelined at Arsenal and he might need to leave the club before he plays football again this season.
Because of his huge salary at the Emirates, only a few clubs can target him. It seems Barcelona would give him another chance to play this season, if they can fix their finances.
The Spanish journalist, Gerard Romero via The Daily Mail claims the Catalans and the striker have already reached an agreement over a six-month loan deal.
The transfer would see him spend the rest of this season in Catalunya, but the La Liga side has to offload Ousmane Dembele first.
The Frenchman is in the final six months of his current contract with them and has refused to sign an extension.
He could leave the Catalans this month if they can find an agreement with a suitor.
It is only if that happens that Aubameyang and Barcelona can officially sign their agreement.
Just Arsenal Opinion
It seems obvious that Mikel Arteta no longer wants Auba in his team after leaving the striker behind, while the rest of the team travelled to Dubai.
Even the former Borussia Dortmund man knows he had fallen foul of the rules too often.
Hopefully, we can ship him out before this transfer window closes.
Are we going to run out of players for Arteta to fall out with?
Haha the magician is tripping over his own ego soon the squad will be down to 11 players 🤪
No o, they say he’s doing the right thing. I wish other premier club will buy Auba so that when he scores against arsenal and celebrates some people will call him a traitor.
No we still have 2 first team players for each position with only 18 matches in 1 competition left to play. A squad of 58 professionals should see us through, even if 4 players catch covid, if not we could call on the 20 academy scholars.
Don’t fall for the media dramas, most teams only have 20-25 first team players. That is where we are at.
I dont think we will buy anyone this window, if we do it’ll probably some kid we pay £3 mil for that’ll kind loaned out and never be seen again.
I agree I think Wilshire will be our only signing and Arteta will take the same approach he did when he won the FA Cup in his first season. He will work with a 23 man squad and when required he will include some academy players to fill the gaps, just like he did with Matt Smith – FA Cup Winner zero matches played.
If Wilshire signs and Aubameyang leaves we will have a 23 man squad not including the 30 or so other young professionals and Edu will have shed around £700k a week off the wage bill for the next 20 weeks.
I don’t really care about the money, I just care about giving the Manager what he wants. If he then fails with what you have given him, then it is his head on the block
Learnt lots
Looks like Barca it is then as Dembele has agreed terms with PSG.
Morata anyone?