He was even worse for Dortmund when he was scoring even more imo.
I was quite impressed when he had a period, for almost a year, before he signed the last contract, where he was quite clinical and wasn’t missing too much.
But that was always his biggest quality - he gets into chances so easily, and that’s a quality that can be overlooked at times.
And btw this is yet ANOTHER reminder (as his time for Borussia under Tuchel) that he can be productive as a CF in a team that plays high possession (he’s at his best there actually), unlike what a lot people used to say; that he should be played as a winger and that he’s ineffective as a CF.
The strength of Auba was his movement and quite a good finisher.
The quality of his runs declined a lot after his new contract and he went from being Artetas top scorer to getting less chances due to the decline in quality of his runs and also missing a fair few of the remaining ones he got.
Another clown more angry at Arteta than Auba when it is obvious which of the two Arsenal fans should be upset with. Probably only a small minority though, I would think most fans have sufficient common sense.
more like this is what he does and always did when you don’t play him as a b2b defending midfielder like we do with our CF nowadays here. that’s probably why he left anyway imo
I don’t think any manager will purposely shoot themselves in the foot unless there was no other way.
With Laca, Nketiah leaving, Auba would have been the only strike option available & only high paying player in the books (which we could afford); so I don’t quite trust the offloading theory like I did with Ozil.
More telling is that there is no murmur coming from other players claiming it was somehow unfair on Auba.
I’m saying we might have been better off playing something else than the false9ball we’re playing and try to make something work based off of Auba+Pepe+Laca in that order instead of sacrificing all of them for the system.
But now we turned it around and are on an upwards trajectory once we stopped trying to fit Auba in there and put Laca there who is much better for the purpose, but I feel like we should’ve sold him earlier if that was the intention. We should have handled his value (and probably Pepe’s as well) better. Oh well, dead horse and all that
I still don’t understand why people think he stopped trying. Earlier in the season Arteta went out of his way to praise the hard running Aubameyang was doing.
If you want to see someone not trying go pull up footage of Eddie’s cameo away at Wolves. That’s a guy who didn’t give a shit.
I’m still very nervous that our lack of viable striker is going to bite us in the ass down the stretch. Even if our system doesn’t necessarily suit Auba’s strengths, it would be so much less stressful having him come off the bench than Eddie or Pepe.
