Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang right through Chelsea’s 3-1 defeat to Arsenal (Photograph by way of Alex Pantling, Lindsey Parnaby – Pool/Getty Photographs)
Former Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will most likely have progressed his popularity with Gunners enthusiasts by way of admitting that shifting to their opponents Chelsea used to be a mistake.
The 36-year-old, now with Ligue 1 giants Marseille, used to be a celeb participant for Arsenal for various years, or even captained the membership for some time.
On the other hand, issues ended badly for Aubameyang as he fell out of favour with supervisor Mikel Arteta and ended up sealing a marvel transfer to Barcelona.
From there, the Gabon global ended up becoming a member of Chelsea the next season, and it’s truthful to mention he flopped right through that temporary spell at Stamford Bridge.
Talking about it now, it seems like Aubameyang regrets it so much, while additionally admitting that he most likely wasn’t totally offered at the transfer within the first position.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang explains regrets over Chelsea transferPierre-Emerick Aubameyang right through his time at Chelsea (Photograph by way of Catherine Ivill/Getty Photographs)
Chatting with Canal Plus, as quoted and translated by way of Purpose, Aubameyang seemed again at that tricky time at Chelsea, explaining how exactly the transfer took place.
“That was a big mistake going there. It was a f*****g big mistake,” he mentioned.
“At that time I had a bad moment in Barcelona. I had a home break-in and Barca needed to sell a player — me or Memphis Depay — and the only thing that was on the table was Chelsea. So I said OK, for my family, I will move away, even if it’s Chelsea…”
He added: “I was thinking maybe it will be okay, Olivier Giroud went from Arsenal to Chelsea and he had no problems, but for me it was different.”
Avid gamers who performed for Arsenal and Chelsea
Bearing in mind they’re opponents, Arsenal and Chelsea have had a large number of gamers representing either one of them in recent times.
Kai Havertz, Noni Madueke and Kepa Arrizabalaga are all recently on Arsenal’s books after becoming a member of immediately from Chelsea, whilst Jorginho, who left the Emirates Stadium on the finish of final season, additionally not too long ago made that very same transfer.
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David Luiz, Willian and Petr Cech additionally moved from Chelsea to Arsenal, whilst going additional again we noticed Ashley Cole and William Gallas switch puts.
Others like Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Petit additionally performed for the Gunners after which the Blues with a spell at Barca in between, identical to Aubameyang.
