Arsenal has to break the bank to keep their star striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Kevin Campbell has said.
Campbell recently revealed that the London club need to stop messing around with the Gabonese striker’s future.
According to him, the African forward guarantees goals so it does not make any sense to sell your goals and then try to replace them.
He added that if the club refuses to give him what he wants, it will cost more to find someone to fill his shoes when he is gone.
His words, “Aubameyang guarantees you goals, and if you sell your goals you’re in a very difficult position to replace them,”
“He’s guaranteed to get you 20 goals a season, minimum, so how are you going to replace that?
“If you don’t give him what he wants, it’s going to cost more to find someone to replace him, and even then they are not proven they can come in and do it.
“He’s in the building! Yes, he’s going to be 31 but he’s still lean, he’s still sharp, he’s still fast – this is the type of player you build around.
“I don’t know what they’re thinking at the club, but I’d have signed him a year ago!”
“I think Arsenal have shot themselves in the foot yet again,”
“They’ve played a game and they’ve taken a risk hoping that they’ll qualify for the Champions League so that would obviously push him to be signing, but it isn’t quite working out this season.
“It’s a very, very dangerous game that they’re playing. The backroom people and the hierarchy said they would never put themselves in this position again, but what have they done? They’ve put themselves in this situation again!
“The club has been run so poorly on the transfer retention side, they keep putting themselves in this very difficult situation and it’s not right, fans are going to go crazy about it.
“I think Aubameyang is right to put the ball firmly in their court and it’s now up to Arsenal to make some moves and prove to him that they’re serious. As an Arsenal fan I want him to stay, of course I do, but if I’m Aubameyang, I’ve been at Arsenal all this time and they have been messing around!
“What Arsenal have been doing, skimping and scraping, is not going to turn his head to stay. If Mikel Arteta wants to keep him they have to break the bank to keep him, they have to.”
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