Barça's 'pampering' of Aubameyang on Instagram, two years after his debut

Published:7/02/2024 - 00:37h

Updated:7/02/2024 - 00:37h

FC Barcelona remembered Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang this Tuesday on their social networks. The club dedicated a post to the Gabonese two years after his debut as a culé, in a semester where he was the top scorer for Xavi Hernández's team

To two years of the debut of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with the FC Barcelona, the club took advantage of to devote him a post in his social networks inviting to the fans culé to leave his samples of affection to the gabonés. Only in Instagram, the great publication more than half million of 'likes me' and more than 3.500 comments, in his majority appreciating to the current forward by his contribution to the team and criticising the decision of the directive to leave him go in the summer of 2022.

'Auba' Added 13 goals and 1 assistance in 24 official parties with the Barça in the second stretch of the 2021/22, being the maximum goleador of the ones of Xavi Hernández in this period. Although it could not win any title, the fans and the club remained very satisfied with his performance in a very complex semester for the Barça. At the end, the forward left 12 million euros in box, another very valued contribution considering that it arrived free after terminating his agreement with the Arsenal.

Aubameyang Answered to the affection of the fans culé

The gabonés answered to the comments of the publication of the Barça in Instagram with two emoticones: two together hands and a heart, with more than 21.500 'likes' and near of 900 answers. In January of 2023, the return of Aubameyang was a real option for the Barça, but Chelsea denied to negotiate his cession by an affordable price. Finally, the group 'blue' opted for terminating him the agreement in summer and the one of Laval fichó to 'cost zero' by the Olympique of Marseilles.

For the Barça, in summer no longer there was margin to try recover him after confirming the signing of Vitor Roque. This season, Pierre-Emerick has recovered his best version in France, with 14 goals and 7 assistances in 29 parties. In the 2022/23 grieve had contested 21 meetings with Chelsea where only added 3 so many and 1 assistance.