Chelsea striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will “100% go away” when Mauricio Pochettino arrives this summer time, in keeping with journalist Fabrizio Romano.
What is the newest on Aubameyang’s future?
The Premier League veteran first arrived in SW6 again in September 2022 from Barcelona, however he is at all times been considerably out of favour having made simply 5 top-flight begins throughout his debut season, with ex-manager Graham Potter even going so far as utterly omitting him from his Champions League squad.
Again in March, Romano revealed that the previous Gabon worldwide made a secret journey to Camp Nou to assist his former Blaugrana teammates throughout a sport and even went into the dressing room after the ultimate whistle which did not go down properly with the hierarchy.
Spanish outlet Sport quickly after reported that the Blues had been contemplating terminating his contract, which is not set to run out till the tip of subsequent season, 12 months early to get him off their books and out of the constructing, and there has now been additional affirmation that he’ll certainly be heading for the exit door.
Taking to Twitter, Romano now experiences that Aubameyang is absolutely anticipated to depart Chelsea upon the conclusion of the present marketing campaign, a time when Pochettino is broadly anticipated to take over. He wrote:
“Pierre Aubameyang confirms: ‘I’d prefer to return to Barcelona… however we are going to see’. Auba will 100% go away Chelsea. Barca open to signal Auba but it surely is determined by Monetary Honest Play. Solely method for Barca: no switch payment & wage decreased.”
Ought to Chelsea maintain or promote Aubameyang?
Chelsea will in all probability know that they made an enormous mistake by signing Aubameyang as a result of he is been nothing however a “legal responsibility” since becoming a member of, in keeping with ESPN pundit and Blues legend Craig Burley, so Todd Boehly ought to positively money in throughout the upcoming window.
The Nike-sponsored athlete has scored simply three objectives and offered one help because the begin of the season, as per Transfermarkt, which is nowhere close to a ok return within the remaining third, to not point out that he is ranked the thirty first worst participant out of the 32 squad members with a WhoScored match ranking of simply 6.12.
Lastly, Aubameyang at present pockets £160k-per-week within the capital which is extraordinary for a participant who’s failing to make any type of constructive impression so sanctioning his sale would release the wage invoice and provides the board further funds to place in the direction of recruiting some much-needed recent faces forward of the 2023/24 time period.