{"id":621955,"date":"2023-02-05T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621955"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:01:59","slug":"chelsea-offload-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/05\/chelsea-offload-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018the Plan Is Clear\u2019: Fabrizio Romano Believes \u00a3170,000-Per-Week Star Will Leave Chelsea in Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will be offloading unwanted striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the summer transfer window, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2023\/02\/05\/chelsea-transfer-news-aubameyang-100-set-to-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Blues decided to cut the 33-year-old striker from their Champions League squad for the remainder of the tournament.<\/p>\n<h2>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Will \u2018100%\u2019 Leave Chelsea in Summer<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCLUSIVE \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>After failing to make their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UCL<\/a> squad, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will 100% leave Chelsea in 2023 \u2611\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Plus more exclusive stories from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a> \ud83d\udcdd<\/p>\n<p>Full story \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caughtoffside\/status\/1622138895101005825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Depart Chelsea at the End of the Season<\/h3>\n<p>David Ornstein has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-barcelona-deal-back-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">reported<\/a> that Barcelona did try to re-sign the Gabonese striker in the January transfer window, but that move failed to materialise.<\/p>\n<p>However, Romano believes that Chelsea will &#8220;100%&#8221; get rid of Aubameyang after leaving him out of their Champions League squad &#8211; the biggest indication that he is no longer an important player for Graham Potter&#8217;s squad.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer guru wrote: &#8220;It was impossible for Barcelona to proceed due to FIFA rules, they like the player but nothing else because of official rules. I think Aubameyang will 100% leave Chelsea in 2023, the plan is clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/03\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-fulham\/\" target=\"_self\">Enzo Fernandez Impresses on Chelsea Debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Arsenal captain has fallen out of favour at Stamford Bridge after producing a string of poor performances, allowing Kai Havertz to assume the permanent starting role of the number nine under Potter at the moment.<\/p>\n<h3>Aubameyang\u2019s Future Left With Uncertainty as Chelsea Set to Revamp Squad<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea made a statement of intent in the winter transfer window, signing eight players and spending over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1620842040681697281\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3300 million<\/a> in transfer fees. That involved bolstering their attack with players such as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/14\/chelsea-agree-deal-sign-mykhailo-mudryk\/\" target=\"_self\">Mykhailo Mudryk<\/a> and Joao Felix.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the club also have Christopher Nkunku joining them in the summer of next season, likely to be Aubameyang&#8217;s replacement in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old striker is currently reportedly on hefty <a href=\"https:\/\/salarysport.com\/football\/player\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3170,000-a-week<\/a> wages, making him an expensive option to have on the bench should that be the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/03\/ben-chilwell-manchester-city-summer-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City Eyeing Ben Chilwell Summer Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The striker has made 18 appearances for Chelsea this season, scoring 3 goals and providing an assist &#8211; which included just one goal in the Premier League. Since joining the Blues last year, he has struggled to impress at Stamford Bridge and seems destined to be sold soon.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p7h3ocY9RdpeTxq4ImlqgQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244452665\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'p7h3ocY9RdpeTxq4ImlqgQ',sig:'y4EH4-3zZhfS63RSmT3YvbDUHwz_G6GcXpq-ui7otJQ=',w:'594px',h:'406px',items:'1244452665',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will be offloading unwanted striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the summer transfer window, claims Fabrizio Romano. This comes after the Blues decided to cut the 33-year-old striker from their Champions League squad for the remainder of the tournament. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Will \u2018100%\u2019 Leave Chelsea in Summer \ud83d\udea8 EXCLUSIVE \ud83d\udea8 After failing to make their #UCL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":621961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,7188],"tags":[8611,4259,740],"class_list":["post-621955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-pierre-emerick-aubameyang"],"modified_by":"Harry Dowsett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}