Horizon blocked at Chelsea, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang must bounce back

Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Chelsea on September 1, 2022. © Harriet Lander / Chelsea FC via Getty Images

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the center forward of Chelsea, has not been able to chain the matches since the arrival of Graham Potter on the bench of the Blues last September.

He was not on the list of players who will continue the C1 and could leave the club in the next or this summer.

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With 30 points, Chealsea is in ninth place in the English championship, very far from the qualifying places for the Champions League.

Author of only 3 goals in 10 games since his arrival from FC Barcelona last summer, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 33, is no longer really in the plans of his coach Graham Potter.

We must save the house of the Blues. 

Not on the list to play C1

After a winter transfer window that cost the club around 370 million euros and the arrival of eight new players, the former Saint-Étienne striker is no longer on the list of players registered for the knockout stage. in the Champions League.

Manager Graham Potter chose to add three other players: Enzo Fernandez, Mykhailo Mudryk and João Felix, the latter two acquired to reshape the team's attack.

João Felix is ​​on a paying loan from Atlético Madrid and is above all a central striker, a position where Graham Potter's options are not legion, especially if he does without Aubameyang, who has been very disappointing since the start of the season.

Felix has been considered one of the biggest hopes in European football since 2019, winning the title of "

", the most promising young player.

After being crowned champion of Portugal with Benfica that summer, the people of Madrid had paid 126 million euros to snatch it from the Lisbon club.

Under the orders of the very rigorous Diego Simeone, he had won the title of Spanish champion in 2021.

A blow for the Gabonese who knows that his career is in danger, even if he continues to make ends meet in the Premier League.

Since the end of the World Cup in Qatar, Aubameyang has only started once in his five appearances with Chelsea.

An exotic championship?

Strongly desired by Thomas Tuchel, the Gabonese therefore left Barça in the summer of 2022 after only six months in Catalonia, where he had arrived from Arsenal, free of any contract.

Problem: Tuchel was sacked less than a week after the arrival of Aubameyang, who did not want to be Robert Lewandowski's understudy at Barca.

And the Catalan club had to bail out the coffers at the time.

During his first stint with the Camp Nou side, "Aubame" scored 11 league goals.

He is still popular with Barça despite his demotion in the attacking hierarchy at the Blues.

If his former club would think of recovering him, FIFA regulations stipulate that a player cannot represent three different clubs during the same season.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang would also be followed by Atlético Madrid and AC Milan, his training club.

But he should wait until the summer.

Aubameyang could leave Europe for an exotic championship.

But his dreams of high level and the Champions League would fly away.

According to

, Aubameyang could end up in the North American league, at FC Los Angeles.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was at the center of many market rumors during the month of January.

In the United States, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang would find one of his compatriots, Denis Bouanga, who arrived in Los Angeles during the summer of 2022.

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