Arsenal: No more of this “selling Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang”

Arsenal have one good thing going for them, and that’s their striker pair. So don’t even start talking about selling either one of them.

I’ll admit, for awhile there, I was entertaining the idea that maybe Arsenal should try to sell Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. But maybe was as close as I got before I realized how ludicrous a notion it was. I don’t care if you get £80m for him, he’s still more valuable to the team than that.

Still, there are outlets out there pitching the idea like it could actually happen. After the lengthy interview that the club released, in which the big wigs spoke at length about avoiding contractual situations like Aaron Ramsey‘s debacle became, the question became – well, who could be sold?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is locked into a contract until 2021, but according to that interview, players entering the last two years of their contract are at risk of being sold.

Nah. Not this time.

No matter what happened at Arsenal this year. No matter if the creative midfield was a block of ineffectiveness, no matter if the defense collectively forgot how to tackle, or the lack of wingers reared its ugly head, no matter what happened, we always had our two elite strikers to bail us out as best they could.

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These two have built such a tremendous rapport in so short a time that it’s as if they have always been brothers, just separated at birth.

Aubameyang won the Golden Boot through sheer willpower alone, turning on the gas to score in his last handful of matches and giving us one small trophy to smile at while we awaited the results of the Europa League final.

Without Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette wouldn’t have been so tremendous, and vice versa. You sell one of them, you break the magic. You break the one thing that we could consistently rely on all year. You break up the best striking pair in all of the footballing world.

No, don’t even talk about selling Aubameyang anymore. Without these two, we have to start putting our faith in others, and as it stands, there’s no one else that is deserving of that role yet. Not like Auba and Laca have been.

I actually feel like an idiot for ever having considered it in the first place. Give me these two strikers over anything you could sign with the money raised from either sale. You can’t beat them.