Arsenal: Grading January transfer window moves
![SWANSEA, WALES - JANUARY 30: Henrikh Mkhitaryan of Arsenal warms up prior to the Premier League match between Swansea City and Arsenal at Liberty Stadium on January 30, 2018 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images) SWANSEA, WALES - JANUARY 30: Henrikh Mkhitaryan of Arsenal warms up prior to the Premier League match between Swansea City and Arsenal at Liberty Stadium on January 30, 2018 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/7d8b8c060a53c9ba11b35ca63fc2d66aaee890b79b74237c7c0320f1f68a426d.jpg)
Signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for £56 million – A
If there was one incoming or outgoing of this January window that Arsenal fans were most surprised about, it was certainly this one. I even wrote this piece when the rumours first started surfacing about how I did not want to let myself believe that it could ever actually happen so I never had the let down of when it inevitably didn’t. Well, I was wrong.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is now an Arsenal player, signed for a club-record £56 million fee on transfer deadline day amid a merry-go-round of strikers (again, I will get onto this). If you are not convinced by this guy’s calibre, then here are his Bundesliga scoring stats for the last two-and-a-half years, once he took over the leading striker for Borussia Dortmund.
2015/16: 25 goals in 31 games; 2016/17: 31 goals in 32 games; 2017/18: 13 goals in 16 games. Aubameyang is a natural-born goalscorer. He just has that knack. And now he’s playing in front of the most creative player in the world. Speaking of…