Stöger relieved after Aubameyang change: "It's good that it's over"

Dortmund (SID) Despite the sporting loss, coach Peter Stöger from Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund reacted with relief to the departure of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. “It’s good that it’s over because the issue has taken up so much public space,” Stöger told Bild. Aubameyang moved to Arsenal in the Premier League on Wednesday after weeks of poker. BVB officially received a transfer fee of 63,75 million euros. The large amount of reporting spread to everything else that had to do with the team. “It no longer serves as a topic that one can perhaps hide behind,” said Stöger. Stöger did not deny that there were tensions between the extroverted goalscorer, who provoked his move with indiscipline and listless training appearances, and the team. At the same time, he defended Aubameyang: "In my time he was never late. He skipped the team meeting once and trained poorly once because he obviously wanted to make a statement. But otherwise he behaved sensibly. What I can't say the boys were so upset." Banning Aubameyang to the stands as a sanction for his misconduct was not an option for Stöger. "If we had put him in the stands and possibly kept him until the summer, the issue would never have been settled. And there would have been no winner," said the Austrian. Aubameyang's successor Michy Batshuayi, whom Dortmund has borrowed from English champions FC Chelsea until the end of the season, gave Stöger the prospect of playing at 1. FC Köln on Friday (20.30 p.m./Eurosport Player). “He’s in full swing and has no training deficit,” said Stöger. It is also not unthinkable that Batshuayi will play from the start.

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Stöger relieved after Aubameyang change: "It's good that it's over"

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