The Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signed for two years at Chelsea from FC Barcelona, announced the two clubs on the night of Thursday to Friday The Catalan formation specified in its press release that the former player of Saint-Etienne, Dortmund or Arsenal, aged 33 years, had been sold for 12 million euros.
“I have scores to settle with the Premier League”
” I am so happy. It’s an honor to be part of this team and I can’t wait to get started. I have some scores to settle with the Premier League and it’s so good to be back, it’s very exciting.”said the player, quoted in the press release.
The striker will indeed regain a championship he left just seven months ago, following terminating his contract with Arsenal, following disciplinary and punctuality problems.
In six months spent in Catalonia, Aubameyang (73 caps, 30 goals) scored 13 goals in 24 matches, finishing the season as the club’s top scorer, tied with Memphis Depay. However, he was no longer in the plans of the Spanish club, in the grip of economic difficulties and which wanted to relieve its payroll of the 2 million euros monthly that “Aubam” received, according to the Spanish press.
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Chelsea had been looking for a center forward since the departure of Timo Werner to Leipzig for 20 million euros according to the English press and the one-season loan of Belgian Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan. He is the seventh signing for the Blues, who have been England’s biggest-spending side in an already unusual summer transfer window, even for the Premier League.