Arsenal transfers: Inside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's fall from grace as Gunners turn focus to Alexander Isak
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Arsenal are in the market for a striker, but they may not have a better option for a late goal than Aubameyang
As Arsenal scrabble around for goals on the pitch and goal scorers off it, so the fall from grace of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang becomes harder to truly comprehend. The lowest scorers in the Premier League's top six have one of Europe's most consistent scorers of the last decade on their books and yet, because he returned to England a day later than promised, he is cast out by Mikel Arteta.
Aubameyang could not have saved them from the most torrid of Januarys. He was at the Africa Cup of Nations with Gabon until he was sent back to London for medical checks after a post-COVID scan revealed "heart lesions." Those tests gave the striker the all clear; having not played since Dec. 6, he can now take to the football pitch.
In whose colors that will be is not yet clear. For the fourth year in a row, Arsenal are spending January trying to shift their highest earning player, the veteran they were planning to build around, to anywhere that will take him.
