Few players have ever gone from being the biggest problem at one club to the most effective solution at another in such a short space of time.
Pierre Emerick Aubameyang’s metamorphosis from outcast at Arsenal to undisputed first-choice Barcelona centre-forward has helped transform the club’s season and his own standing among Europe’s top strikers.
Aubameyang scored the first and last goals in Barcelona’s 4-0 win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday night.
Pierre Emerick Aubameyang’s has gone from Arsenal outcast to Barcelona’s top forward
Aubameyang scored twice for Barca in their 4-0 win over Real Madrid in the El Clasico
He could easily have scored a hat-trick; as it is his tally is now eight in 11 games for his new club.
As the Barcelona players bounced up and down in the dressing after the clasico singing: ‘Being at Barca is the best there is’, he was right at the centre of the celebrations with one arm around Eric Garcia and another around one of the club’s kit-men.
To say he has fitted in, adapting to life in another league, would be an understatement.
He has even taken the heat off the board’s need to throw financial caution to the wind and sign Erling Haaland.
Aubameyang’s form has taken the heat off the board to sign wonderkid Erling Haaland
It’s all a far cry from the malaise of just a few months back when a lack of form, discipline and commitment cost him the captaincy at Arsenal.
‘We had a disciplinary issue. We have drawn the line. He’s on the bench,’ said Mikel Arteta before the north London derby last year.
Pictures of the player’s £2million chrome-wrapped LaFerrari stuck in London traffic suggested lateness had been the problem and it was not the only time he set the wrong example.
Last December the club waived a ban on players making trips abroad to give him special dispensation to visit his unwell mother in France under the condition that he returned the same day so as to train…
Source : dailymail
