Pierre Emerick Aubameyang during a party with the Arsenal

IT WAS NOT HIS PREFERRED DESTINATION IN SPAIN

Aubameyang has 'betrayed' his grandfather with his signing for Barça

Published:1/02/2022 - 09:55h

Updated:1/02/2022 - 10:56h

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang arrives in Barcelona to help the institution improve its offensive capacity. However, his signing has made him break a promise he made to his grandfather several years ago

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Already the offices of the FC Barcelona have finished to do his duties during the market of winter. With four signings, the staff of Xavi Hernández will have new offensive arms to be able to increase his margin goleador, one of his more urgent needs for this second half of season. Now, with all the totally resolved fringes and waiting for an official communiqué, the landing of Pierre-Emercik Aubameyang​ has done him break a promise of a lot of years.

And it is that the gabonés has gone through several important leagues of Europe, as it Tie it 1, the Bundesliga, the Series To and the Premier. LaLiga Will be another more in his list of winners, and his landing in Catalonia will do him break the promised to his grandfather when it still was player of the Borussia Dortmund. It does several years, in an interview with 'Bein Sports', the forward declared that it had done him the swearing to his grandfather that it went to play for the Real Madrid some day, this after the crossing between both teams by Champions League.

In said commitment, the attacker was the one who more highlighted inside the terrain of game, marking two so much in the defeat (3-2) in Santiago Bernabéu. After the party, when being questioned on a possible signing with the group merengue, answered with sincerity. "As always I have said it, I did him a promise to my grandfather that went to play here in Madrid", affirmed in that then the born in Naval.

Almost five years after those statements, finishes landing in the First Division of Spain with the elastic Barcelona of the Barcelona, rival maximum of the white square. With 32 years, arrives to help to the offensive of Xavi Hernández to improve his capacity goleadora. His ex team, the Arsenal, no longer had he, by what a 'change of airs' was exactly what needed both parts. It signed like free agent and will be until summer with the option to keep another season more.

It was not the main option

Xavi already had left clear in the past that Aubameyang was not the most adapted option for the system of game of the Barça. In this window of traspaso, the objective number one of the egarense was Álvaro Morata, but his signing made impossible thanks to the demands of the Athletic of Madrid, the one who demanded a traspaso complete and no a cession that would reinforce to a direct rival. Now, the plans have changed, and the dynamics of the team in attack will have a new version for this second half of season.

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