Mirror Sports claims that Arsenal is ready to get serious about signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to a new deal now that they have qualified for the Europa League.
The Gunners have been in talks with their captain, who has entered the final 12 months of his current deal with them.
The Gabonese attacker proved in the FA Cup final last weekend why he is indispensable to them.
After netting both goals in the semi-final against Manchester City, he repeated the trick against Frank Lampard’s men and helped the Gunners to their record 14th FA Cup trophy.
As a bonus, they have also qualified for next season’s Europa League as a reward for their efforts.
The report claims that the Gunners will look to get him on a new deal as soon as possible, and that might mean them meeting his £250,000-a-week demand.
Mikel Arteta has even urged him to sign the new deal after revealing that he can become a legend at the Emirates if he continues the way he has been doing.
Arteta said via Mirror Sports: “We always had incredible strikers at this club and Auba deserves to be named and compared with the big names.
“By winning trophies he will be closer to that the longer he stays there. Hopefully we can have him for longer.
“The biggest problem was to convince him to work the way he was working.
“He was going to get more reward and more respect, and our respect would go to admiration. Admiration from his team-mates and the people who have been with him and also from the fans.
“It (goalscoring) is the most difficult thing in football, he makes it look simple.”
Please Arsenal don’t bottle this….
I have watched the highlights of the FA Cup finals more than 10times since Saturday. Feels so good…
I was ecstatic when we signed ozil. I m a huge fan and I have been following him since World Cup 2010, Schalke 04, Werder Bremen, Real Madrid then of course Arsenal hence my name Uzi Ozil on this platform.. but i must say I m really disappointed with Him. I think there is something going on behind the scene that we don’t know. I mean he was playing under Arteta before the pandemic outbreak. Sorry I have to bring this in…its gonna drag for a while. Sometimes I wonder if we let the wrong player go (Sanchez) and kept ozil at that time. Well, thats in the past now…
Back to the man of the Moment Aubamenyang, Please sign that deal and the board should support Shawn Michaels with little hair (Arteta)
Well he almost went in January to Chelsea only to be turned down by them. I guess how all these fans who are singing his songs would have reacted at that time. There is no such thing as being loyal and happy these days…that breed is very rare now. Now a days you want to keep player show them more money and they will stay same goes for Auba. I don’t blame him either that is how it is in real life outside football as well, who does not want a promotion or more salary. Plain and simple Arsenal want to keep him then pay him sensible money…keeping in mind his age I hope in heat of things we don’t give him a stupid contract with a lot of money for 4 years, we are know to do stupid contact deals.
The source for that story is the Daily Mail!! Hard to find more of a joke paper.
Arsenal and its cra-cra fans have to be careful how Auba’s contract is handled. The probability of our star scoring more than 20 goals per season for the next 4 years is extremely low. If he gets a 4 year contract it will be done on the premise that it would be worth it if he does so for the next 2 years. Contracts are business. If he does the Club makes a profit. If he scores over 10 goals for the next 2 and guide the younger ones, the Club makes a killing. However, the abusive fans of Arsenal could give him the Ozil treatment, pretending that they own the Club and that the player schemed to rob their beloved club. Auba’s team, I am certain, must look at how the fans abuse players. He will age. He will decline. Will our cra-cra fans appreciate this neurobiological reality or pretend that he should be able to do as well past 33 because 3 other players did it in history – and he is wicked not to be the fourth.
I love aubameyang so much