Arsenal: 3 reasons why Gunners should keep Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

1. He’s bloody good

Ultimately, you build good teams by signing good players and putting them together. And Aubameyang is a bloody good player. This season, he has 17 Premier League goals. Only Jamie Vardy has more. He co-won the Golden Boot last year and has scored more goals than any other Premier League since arriving at Arsenal bar Mohamed Salah.

More pertinently, this season, he has scored 42.5% of Arsenal’s Premier League goals. That is the highest percentage of any Gunners player in a single season in Premier League history. Arsenal are reliant on him, and to lose him, even in investing in a replacement, would be problematic, to say the least.

And in investing in that replacement, the best-case scenario would be to sign a player of similar skill level and impact as Aubameyang. So why get rid of Aubameyang in the first place, especially if you have Martinelli and Nketiah already waiting in the wings?

There are, of course, strong arguments to be made to sell Aubameyang. But that does not mean it should be a unanimous decision. There is logic to keeping Aubameyang, and it might be enough for Arsenal to defy the transfer market.