Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang must leave Arsenal like Suarez from Liverpool - FA Cup 2019-2020 - Football

Otherwise, you can forever live in local cups instead of the Champions League.

When Mikel Arteta returned to the Emirates, Arsenal were in 11th place in the Premier League, suffered from the tactics of Unai Emery and forgot about the Europa League for next season. North London resigned themselves to the fact that this year will be a transitional one, and did not expect miracles – they would not collapse completely in the middle at the end of the championship.

This is probably why no one was betting on entering Europe through other tournaments. October 5: 5 with Liverpool and elimination on penalties in the League Cup instantly reminded the fans: with any strong opponent, Arsenal will decompose and fly out, there is nothing to even start.

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Pierre-Emerick Obameyang, Arsenal

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That is why the first three rounds of the FA Cup “gunners” played with one and a half teams. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang never made it into the squad, and in the quarterfinals against Sheffield he didn’t really warm up. What’s the point, there are only giants left in the grid, and then what difference does it make who gets slapped by City, Manchester United or Chelsea – with Obama or Eddie Nketia.

But Arsenal prepared for 1/2 Cup in the spirit of European basketball. At the beginning of the 2000s, they realized their own inferiority to the NBA and exalted the format of the “Final Four”, according to which any outsider can mark the top club in the segment of one game, the unpredictability of the “God” level. Aubameyang became the all-time MVP of the British micro-tournament: zero minutes to the semifinals, a double against City and a double against Chelsea’s net, four goals in two super-decisive matches. No one in early July saw the “Gunners” with a trophy, but in such a tight time frame, anyone is able to swing to hyperform and crack the favorite.

Now Pierre-Emerick finds himself in the position of Luis Suarez at Liverpool. It is obvious to any football fan that the Gabonese is superior to his partners in skills. Yes, in the attack, he flees from the defenders along with Lacazette and Pepe, but they have Jaka and David Luis on the backing vocals, that is, it is better to turn the implementation switch to the maximum, otherwise you can pull out two, and three, and four from the grid.

Suarez also played with Daniel Sturridge and ultra-young Raheem Sterling in the first half of the 2010s, and then it even seemed that this was a normal combination in the attack. It’s scary to imagine that Glen Johnson and John Flanagan played more than 20 games in the 2013/14 Premier League – this is the team Louis almost dragged to the championship a couple of years before Jurgen Klopp’s arrival at Anfield.

Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge, Liverpool

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And exactly the same situation is now with Aubameyang. Since February 2018, he has hammered 70 goals in England – in 2.5 years even Salah drove fewer bullets into the opponents’ goal than a Gabonese. For half a month, Pierre-Emerick in solo dragged the trophy in the coaching career of Mikel Arteta, and these are truly completely individual efforts, and completely different ones. In the first goal of City, he struck his head in the fall, in the second he flew into a counterattack, with Chelsea first rode one on one, and after the break he spun Zuma and neatly cut the ball over the goalkeeper’s head – an absolutely universal forward in the best form.

Obama’s contract ends next summer, and after such a show, the football media will be choked with transfer rumors with high-profile firms. Once upon a time on the news feeds it was impossible to get over the African saliva in front of the Santiago Bernabeu – for Real Madrid was supported by Pierre-Emerick’s grandfather, who lived somewhere near Madrid, and the granddaughter, before the old man’s death, promised one day to enter the field in the form of “Blancos” …

But it seems that this train left after the transfer of Eden Azar for 100 million euros, and Florentino Perez is on the hunt for Kylian Mbappe, and not at all for the lightning-like striker of Arsenal. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the line of rich grandees did not line up behind the Gabonese forward – after the age of 30, nimble legs are slowly becoming slower. And if high-speed opening behind the back is the main skill of a football player, then such careers usually collapse in no time.

Probably, Aubameyang will extend his contract with the Gunners and remain at Emirates, and it seems that he will not win anything in salary – all the same 12 million euros per season. And this will be a big disappointment, because the ambitions of the London club will remain at the level of the struggle for the Champions League and regular nibbling of favorites in the Premier League – no fights for the main titles, only fleeting cups, and three or four seasons are left to dust at Obama’s top level …

In the minds of fans, the Gabonese will remain an incredibly useful local striker, British Fabio Quagliarella or Antonio di Natale – the man who spent the peak of his physical strength and amazing talent for scratching for sixth place in the Premier League. In the list of achievements of Pierre-Emerick on Wikipedia, there are only cups – in Germany, France, now England, and also the titles of the best scorer. This is not what we expected from the mega-charismatic runner of Dortmund, who was too much for a 25-year-old boy to drag from Batman.

This summer is the last time when it’s not too late to slam the door and run away for big prizes. The example of Suarez 2014 should have taught any cool striker: if a team does not meet your needs, you need to run away from it to a big company whenever possible. Luis is now a family friend of Lionel Messi and won the Barcelona Champions League and four titles in Example. Hardly anything like this could be achieved at Liverpool Brendan Rogers.

Here is Aubameyang – he spends time on Arsenal, which will still grow, but Pierre will find the peak of this team already on his football retirement. Probably with an insane sense of regret that my grandfather will never see her granddaughter at Real Madrid, and that we all will score important goals in the Champions League final with a big team instead of a cup collector with local middle peasants.