Chelsea star Aubameyang already in transfer talks with another club
FT Desk
- Updated: 8 Oct 2022 05:18 CDT
- 3 min read
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang only joined Chelsea from Barcelona this summer, but the former Arsenal captain is already plotting the next step in his career according to reports.
Aubameyang has endured quite the run-around in recent seasons. Stripped of Arsenal's captaincy last December, he was allowed to leave on a free transfer for Barcelona in February.
He was the 13-goal top-scorer at Camp Nou despite only playing half a season, but Barca duly spent €50 million on his former Borussia Dortmund teammate Robert Lewandowski, latterly of Bayern Munich, and pushed Aubameyang towards Chelsea for a €12m profit in September.
Aubameyang 🤝 Tuchel.
😥 The reunion lasted 59 minutes. pic.twitter.com/sHILtCZEOR— Football Transfers (@Transfersdotcom) September 7, 2022
Blues manager Thomas Tuchel had won the DFB Cup with Aubameyang at BVB in 2017, but their reunion lasted less than an hour of football, with Tuchel sacked and replaced by Brighton's Graham Potter following Chelsea's 1-0 loss to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League - Auba's debut.
New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has a "Vision 2030" strategy for the club, the option to buy the 25-year-old Tammy Abraham back from Roma ate the end of the season, and Aubameyang is 33. His Stamford Bridge future is already in doubt, but PSG could be ready to offer him a way out.
'Planning with Paris'
"Aubameyang is already planning with Paris, somewhere he has always appreciated as a destination," write Foot Mercato. "With Paris Saint-Germain failing to sign a second world class striker this summer, Aubameyang would represent a major attacking option to use for next season.
"And he would find a coach in Paris, Christophe Galtier, whom he knows well, having played under him for Saint-Etienne between 2011 and 2013."
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Such a transfer would make sense for PSG. Gabon captain Aubameyang was born in Laval, a two-hour drive west of Paris, and their star player Kylian Mbappe - the first of the world class strikers referred to - is frustrated with leading the line at the Parc des Princes.
"I play differently, they ask other things of me here than at my club," Mabppe said recently when on international duty with France. "I have a lot more freedom here. The coach knows that there's a No.9 like Olivier [Giroud], who keeps defences occupied.
"Me, I can walk around, get into space, ask for through balls. In Paris, it's different not having that. I'm asked to be a pivot which is different."
