{"id":1136566,"date":"2020-03-14T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1136566"},"modified":"2020-03-14T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:22:26","slug":"pierre-emerick-aubameyang-deserves-better-club-arsenal-ian-wright","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-deserves-better-club-arsenal-ian-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang deserves to play for a better club than Arsenal &#8211; Ian Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arsenal legend Ian Wright says Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang deserves to be playing for a club winning league titles and going for Champions League glory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Gabonese marksman joined the Gunners from Borussia Dortmund in January 2018 for a then club-record \u00a356m.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aubameyang at Arsenal: Five key things to know\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund for a reported \u00a356m in January 2018.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s since gone on to score 61 goals in 97 games across all competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Last season Aubameyang shared the Premier League Golden Boot with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.<\/li>\n<li>Aubameyang currently trails Jamie Vardy for this season&#8217;s top scorer prize, with 17 to the Englishman&#8217;s 19.<\/li>\n<li>His current Arsenal contract expires in June 2021 and club legend Ian Wright feels he deserves to be playing elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7529440\/embed\/v4?image_option=fullsq\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang has since become Arsenal&#8217;s leading marksman, scoring 61 goals across 97 matches in all competitions and he (17) currently trails Jamie Vardy (19) in the race for this season&#8217;s Premier League Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike Vardy, he&#8217;s yet to taste success in English football, with the Gunners finishing outside the top four places during his time in north London, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meaning Aubameyang has also missed out on playing Champions League football<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They did, however, reach a Europa League final last season but Wright &#8212; the club&#8217;s second most prolific goalscorer in history &#8212; is concerned that Aubameyang may not stay beyond his present contract which expires in June 2021, and he wouldn&#8217;t blame him for doing so.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sancho, Haaland, Hakimi &amp; Brandt | Meet Borussia Dortmund&#039;s Fantastic Four\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpOpxJuRT0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_QgsfA8W1TdLADOz0txpTg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can imagine him in a better team then he himself would be winning Premier Leagues and vying for places in Champions League finals and I think he deserves that,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportreview.com\/2020\/03\/arsenal-transfer-news-ian-wright-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-deserves-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t see him particularly vocal on the pitch pointing and screaming but it\u2019s what he does in respect of his leadership with the goals that he scores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you take his goals out of that team then they\u2019re in a massive heap of trouble. Arsenal need a few more players to kick in with their form to help him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a goal-scorer who is scoring at the rate of a Champions League player, a world class goal-scorer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about the last big contract in his career. I just hope that the love that he has for the club and the fans have for him is enough for him but I wouldn\u2019t want to be in his position because it\u2019s a tough one for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend Ian Wright says Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang deserves to be playing for a club winning league titles and going for Champions League glory. The 30-year-old Gabonese marksman joined the Gunners from Borussia Dortmund in January 2018 for a then club-record \u00a356m. 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