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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang looks set to miss out on a move to Barcelona with the La Liga club currently unable to reach an agreement with Arsenal after a dramatic deadline day which saw the former club captain fly out to Spain before an agreement was reached.
Aubameyang now seems set to return to north London, where he is an exile from Mikel Arteta’s first team, unless Arsenal and Barcelona can reach an increasingly unlikely agreement over who will pay what proportion of the 32-year-old’s weekly salary, worth in excess of $400,000.
Sources close to the deal confirmed to CBS Sports that Aubameyang had reached a full agreement with Barcelona over the loan deal but the Spanish club have struggled to find an agreement with Arsenal, who were taken by surprise when they discovered that Aubameyang had already made the trip to Barcelona. Some employees discovered only when he was pictured arriving at the airport. It has since been suggested that the player was travelling for a family holiday but that has now been cut short.
It will be a frustrating end to January for Aubameyang, who had rejected offers from elsewhere in a bid to secure a switch to a top European club, CBS Sports revealed earlier this month that the striker had been offered a loan move to Al Nassr, one which would have come with a $9 million mandatory purchase clause that would have been welcomed by Arsenal. Despite late attempts to charm the Gabon striker — including an exit clause that would have allowed Aubameyang to return to Europe in a year’s time — he was ultimately set on remaining in Europe.
Barcelona entered the fray in the final hours of the window but having signed Ferran Torres and Adama Traore — whilst failing to clear the final months of Ousmane Dembele’s contract off the book.
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