{"id":320,"date":"2019-03-01T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-was-wanted-by-sam-allardyce-at-everton-before-striker-joined-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:53:39","slug":"pierre-emerick-aubameyang-was-wanted-by-sam-allardyce-at-everton-before-striker-joined-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was wanted by Sam Allardyce at Everton before striker joined Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Allardyce has revealed he was interested in signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for Everton before he eventually joined Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The former Toffees boss told talkSPORT he knew the striker was \u2018desperate\u2019 to move to the Premier League and had spoken to club bosses about the possibility of bringing him to Goodison Park last January.<\/p>\n<p>However, it became clear that Aubameyang\u2019s price tag was just too much for the Merseyside club.<\/p>\n<p>The Gabon international later moved from Borussia Dortmund to Arsenal for a club-record \u00a356million.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday\u2019s Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, Big Sam said: \u201cAubameyang was desperate to come to the Premier League and we didn\u2019t really know if it was definitely a yes [to Everton] or not \u2013 but it was probably not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumours were that he really wanted to come to the Premier League and he was desperate to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether that could have happened or not, we never got that far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always going to be too much money for January, because of what the club spent previous to me arriving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Allardyce has revealed he was interested in signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for Everton before he eventually joined Arsenal. The former Toffees boss told talkSPORT he knew the striker was \u2018desperate\u2019 to move to the Premier League and had spoken to club bosses about the possibility of bringing him to Goodison Park last January. However, it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}