Report: Arsenal’s €25 million-rated striker offered to Barcelona

With the transfer window soon drawing to a close, Barcelona are still working on trying to ease their financial and sporting burdens by trying to offload certain players and potentially sign new ones for as cheap as possible.

The latest name floating around the rumour mill as a potential arrival is Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The Gabonese international has been heavily linked to the Catalans previously, but a move has never materialized.

According to RAC1 journalist Gerard Romero, Arsenal have supposedly offered Aubameyang’s services to Barcelona, but the Catalan giants are not interested in signing the former Borussia Dortmund forward.

Two years ago, there was endless speculation about Aubameyang making the move to Spain, however, he decided to continue with the Gunners and signed a new deal last year, tying him to North London till 2023.

The 32-year old is nearing the twilight of his career and given the current financial climate at Barcelona, they cannot afford to spend any money on any signings despite Ronald Koeman’s desires to bring in a forward.

The 25 million euro valuation is fairly lucrative, but beyond consideration at the moment. Additionally, Barcelona do have a wealth of talent in their frontline and Aubameyang’s salary will add more burden to an already overflowing wage mass, which is only just being curbed by Gerard Pique and the other club captains’ pay cuts.

The only realistic way any new signings can be considered, is if at least two players leave the club in the coming days, which is beginning to seem unlikely. There is sure to be more concrete news about players like Miralem Pjanic and Martin Braithwaite.

Player valuation in title obtained from transfermarkt.com on date of publication.