Surely they could've got a fee.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | Performances
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Yep. He was still worth £15m or so.
They have lost that (and are still paying towards his wages until summer) so the reported £25m they are saving isn’t particularly accurate is it…
Nah. There are three forwards aged 32 or over that have ever been sold for £10m or more and two of them are Cristiano Ronaldo. The other is Fernando Llorente and only god knows why Spurs paid that much.
Aging strikers on huge wages just don't have transfer value. A better comparison is Luis Suarez, a much better player than Auba both in his prime and at age 32, who got sold for 2m euro and a bag of footballs.
It's funny how him dragging Arsenal to that FA Cup in 2020 is the only reason why Arteta has so much goodwill at Arsenal. Yet Arsenal and Arteta so readily discarded him
Sadly you’re wrong.
Suarez was at the end of his contract wasn’t he?
Transfermarkt values Auba at just under £14m so I wasn’t far off.
PS your mismanagement is why he’s on those wages by the way
Must be quite soul destroying being an Arsenal fan, seeing your star players like Ozil and Auba just totally evaporate in front of you.
Sanchez, Ramsey, Wilshere
The club is constantly having to let it’s best players leave for free yet some think it’s great business! Baffling.
I don't really bother as a fan. As long as the football matches are entertaining I am fine. From a business owner's perspective it is definitely not good.
It's not great, but you get used to the pain of supporting a banter club. As you lot are currently finding out
Just like us and Sanchez, they had to get rid of him
There's a lot of wages freed up in the summer at Arsenal, especially if Lacazette goes too
Although it remains to be seen if they'll spend it well
There's a lot of wages freed up in the summer at Arsenal, especially if Lacazette goes too
Although it remains to be seen if they'll spend it well
Suarez wasn't out of contract, he was transferred.
Auba's transfermarkt valuation means exactly nothing. Nobody was going to pay 15m for him or anything close.
No when Suarez left his contract was nearly done hence the valuation
What was the disciplinary issue with Auba?
He asked to see his sick mother in France and was granted permission, under the condition that he returned to London on the same day. He stayed overnight in France, returning to London and training the following morning which wasn't what they agreed, which broke their Covid protocols as he should have taken a PCR test in the UK and not in France.
I think it must have been a build up of incidents (possible late to training?) because the incident that resulted in him getting stripped of the captaincy and made an outcast seems relatively minor in isolation.
He fell off a cliff after signing that big contract it’s remarkable how he just stopped giving a fk after that. He’s a club legend for me his goal scoring ratio was out of this world in his first 3 seasons but he’s done now. Was offering nothing on the pitch for us he was so bad that Lacazette is rightly ahead of him. Good move for him and for us we’re lucky not to be stuck with another Ozil.
What always amazes me about these things is how many people will defend footballers who are getting paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a week when they don't give a crap. Its the same with Pogba. Seems like a nice guy and when he is motivated and in the mood he is probably in the top few midfielders in the world. It doesn't bother him even a little bit though when he has a run of bad games. He will still insist on trying to show how strong he is on the ball and lose it time and time again in a game. Does he need to do it? No its his ego.
There comes a point where your wages to imply a level of professionalism and dedication that so many top players seem to lack right now.
But then this is a prime example of why its lacking. Auba hasn't given to many ***** about Arsenal for a while and he got rewarded with a massive contract and now he is being rewarded again with a transfer to Barca. Pogba will walk away at the end of the season and get paid even more at another big club.
There comes a point where your wages to imply a level of professionalism and dedication that so many top players seem to lack right now.
But then this is a prime example of why its lacking. Auba hasn't given to many ***** about Arsenal for a while and he got rewarded with a massive contract and now he is being rewarded again with a transfer to Barca. Pogba will walk away at the end of the season and get paid even more at another big club.
Surely not? It must not take much to be a legend.
He was scoring goals at an insane rate before his big contract and he carried the team with his goals for a couple of seasons. Im sure he has a record of sorts for the speed at which he was putting them away. He didn’t leave the club in a bad way (falling out with Arteta is quite normal) and he won the FA Cup with us where he was scoring important goals. He’s been a great signing just a shame we didn’t win more.
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Really good signing, no doubt. I just think it should take more than a few very good seasons to become a club legend. Certainly not up there with guys like Henry, Vieira, Adams etc. Perhaps I am in the minority.
Proves to me that Barcelona are at a bad spot.
That doesn’t fit the Arsenal narrative!
They’ve actually saved nothing when you factor this in and his value in the market.
Surely his personality will clash with the discipline of Xavi. Barca are idiots for buying him.
He'll score a bag full in LL though, they might just ditch him after a year but he's better than Braithwaite!
To be honest, you seem more concerned about it than any Arsenal fans.
The truth is, you can only receive what someone is willing to give. So you might think Aubameyang is worth £15M, but you need someone willing to pay that, pay his wages, & be somewhere he's willing to go. So once he's knocked back Saudi, once you've probably tried the likes of Newcastle & PSG, then you soon run out of options and someone needs to make a compromise.
So what to you do, be forced to keep a player you want rid of for £15M for when it's going to cost you that and more to keep him?
Avoiding souring a group of young players is worth taking a financial hit sometimes.
Yeah, there is the added toxicity that keeping said star player ostricised brings.
Im not claiming we are geniuses or it's a great deal by any means, but it's more the relief of making the best out of a bad situation, while also acknowledging it opens up massive wiggle room in the wage budget in the summer when we eventually replace him.
Just not got a clue who that is going to be now.
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Where did you hear about him having problems with the youngsters? This all started back in december when he was late in reporting back from internationals, Arteta threw him under the bus in a press conference and has exiled him since.
That is an 8m-feck-you smile to Arsenal fans. Beautiful.
Auba loss doesn't really hurt. He was on his way down. The loss of Guendouzi, Saliba, Mavrapanos is the real crime tbh.
2 great goals today, playing really well.
Well, 2 goals. 1 great + 1 tap in. Good movement though.
Well, 2 goals. 1 great + 1 tap in. Good movement though.
He was superb today
Auba will play great till he gets a new hefty contract 
The one that got away for Arsenal.
Yeah, Arsenal effed up. But maybe he just needed a change of scenery.
Or a manager who doesn’t consistently play him out of position then develop a weird vendetta against him?
He played through the middle so much for us and was still useless, so really not sure what vendetta you have here really tbh
Arteta literally played Auba non stop despite him dropping poor performance after poor performance, and many Arsenal fans wanting Laca to start instead. He also played Auba after him breaking rules various times like the NLD etc.
Auba clearly just needed a change of scenery, it was better for both us and him. I like him as a guy and as a player so wish him well with it.
Or maybe La Liga defences are worse than PL defences.