The Barcelona announced this Wednesday the signing of the Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who arrives from Arsenal with the release letter and signs for the Barça club until June 2025, with an agreed exit option on June 30, 2023 and a termination clause of 100 million euros.
The 32-year-old former Arsenal player is Barcelona’s latest reinforcement in the winter market after the operations of Ferran Torres, Dani Alves and Adama Traoré.
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After leaving Arsenal yesterday, Aubameyang arrives at Barcelona for free and will sign a contract for three and a half seasons, although in June 2023, the date on which his relationship with the English club ended, he can agree to leave with the Barça club.
His incorporation was made official beyond the deadline for the registration of players for the winter market, which closed last Monday, since he signs with the Barça club as a free agent.
Otherwise, he could not be registered in LaLiga, which on its website has already given the green light to the operation of the African player, who trained yesterday with his new teammates.
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“I’m already here ‘culers’. Força Barça!” Said the player in a video published by Barcelona, which has not yet set a date to officially present its latest signing.
The Gabonese striker, who has a family in the Barcelona town of Sitges, landed last Monday morning in Barcelona, where at night, before sealing the agreement with his new club at the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper, he went to a medical center to pass the medical examination.
Aubameyang becomes, thus, the center forward that the Barça team coach, Xavi Hernández, wanted to reinforce the first team.
In the first weeks of the winter window, Barça set their sights on Juventus striker Álvaro Morata, an operation that ultimately did not materialize due to the demands of Atlético de Madrid, the Madrid-owning club, which only accepted a sale for the player and not a transfer.
Given the impossibility of signing Morata, in the last days of the market the name of Aubameyang emerged strongly, who has participated in fifteen games with Arsenal this season and has scored seven goals.
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This course, Aubameyang, who has only scored four goals in the Premier League, was removed from the team in early December for an act of indiscipline. He returned late from a personal trip and broke the protocols against COVID-19.
Arteta’s punishment went further and Aubameyang has not made an Arsenal list since December 6. Nor was his participation in the Africa Cup without controversy, since the striker tested positive upon his arrival in Cameroon after having been in Dubai the day before the party.
This caused the Gabonese federation to return him to London before the tournament ended. Since then, Aubameyang has trained alone in the sports city of the ‘Gunners’, while his teammates went to Dubai to train, waiting to resolve his future. Aubameyang signed for Arsenal in January 2018.
The English club paid Borussia Dortmund some 60 million, where in four and a half seasons they showed their best football with 141 goals in 214 games. At Arsenal, off-sports problems aside, he has scored 92 goals in 162 games.
It was in the first three seasons as ‘Gunner’ that he showed his best level, which allowed him in September 2020 to extend his contract with the London team until June 2023. However, his performance plummeted since then and in the campaign 2020/2021 he barely scored 15 goals, his worst record since he arrived from Borussia Dortmund.
Now he arrives at a Barça in need of a goal with the aim of relaunching his career and helping the Barça team to qualify for the next edition of the Champions League.
With the arrival of Aubameyang, the team trained by Xavi Hernández, without adding the homegrown players Ferran Jutglà and Ez Abde, has a list of eight forwards: Ousmane Dembélé, who has not entered the last two calls due to his refusal to renew, Memphis Depay, Ansu Fati, Martin Braithwaite, Luuk de Jong, Ferran Torres, Adama Traoré and the former Arsenal striker.
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