Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (signed, sealed, delivered)

Yours have become stale after so many uses. You need to come up with better/newer ones.

Anddddddd…international break.

https://twitter.com/themwania/status/958541719594782720

Well confirmation from Wenger here that it’s done.

Btw did Dortmund get their replacement yet?? :grin:

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Careful, this is a pre-record for the announcement when it can be made. Shown in error it would seem. Dortmund may go nuts with Arsenal if they’ve not secured a striker yet.

That vid pretty much wraps it up

Expecting official confirmation later

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Still kinda unsure what this signing accomplishes… if it really is the difference between Özil re-signing or not fair enough but like @sevchenko said in the Wenger thread:

Now we’re left having spent £110m worth on strikers of age 26 and 28. Really not sure how we can accommodate them both. Let’s pray the Theo position works for 28 yr old poacher Aubameyang because if not we’ve basically just paid £60m to convince Özil (if true that he’s re-signing).

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Nah let’s just put Laca on the bench ( concede it was a horrid signing) play Auba in the position he’s top 10 in the world in.

Don’t think there is as much difference between Auba and Laca as you do. Yes, Auba the better striker, but not sure by a significant margin. If the idea was to upgrade at CF by a minor margin that’s fine but we should’ve found a sale for Lacazette near the price we paid for him. But we know that’s clearly not the idea. So let’s hope Auba in Theo role works.

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Laca either improves or the club should show him the exit door.

Auba is a top class striker, the better of the 2 and there is no reason to play him out of position to accomodate an underperfomer.

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Maybe, but that doesn’t seem to be the plan from Wenger, and if it were there’s no excuse for not selling Lacazette or including him in this deal with Auba, as his value would only plummet as a back-up to Auba.

Even if it were the plan, I get the feeling people would be a bit disappointed if they think that switching Auba in for Laca is going to make a major difference. Think we’d be looking at slight improvements at best there.

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After last nights showing, no amount of madness can get me excited now

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Again. If Giroud leaves and we sell Welbeck in the summer, we have Aubameyang, Lacazette and Iwobi as forwards in the summer. Even if this move is utmost short-termism we have plenty of room to work on the future.

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I am trying my best :ozil2:

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Time to move the thread!

https://twitter.com/TomCIarke/status/958526025364918273

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Not the first time of late. Looks like Arsene’s taken over our PR now.

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Dreaming if you think Auba isn’t playing the poacher role he has been so succcesful in.

Don’t believe in selling Laca, but like most top clubs, he should get dropped for Auba until he shows form coming off the bench.

Swansea game really showed Wilshere’s influence on our side.

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It’s happening.

Expect an announcement soon

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Just heard the video leak on talksport whilst I’m working. Yeah baby!!! Oh, and fair play to the genius talksport person who came up with the title “Arsenal drop Aubameyanger clanger”

Pretty sure the leak was purposely done given the shit show last night

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