Peter Stoger was glad to see an end to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang s transfer saga and hopes Borussia Dortmund can narrow their focus to on-field matters.
Aubameyang completed his long-awaited move to Arsenal on deadline day, the Gunners parting with a club-record £56million for his services.
Dortmund replaced the Gabon international with the loan signing of Chelsea s Michy Batshuayi whom Stoger has suggested will go straight into the starting XI for Friday s trip to Cologne.
To complete the transfer triangle, Arsenal offloaded Olivier Giroud to Chelsea, but with the window now shut, Stoger hopes a good deal of the media furore will die down heading into the business end of 2017-18.
When you wake up and remember is a Gunner…
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal)
It s good that it s over because that issue occupied so much space in public, Stoger told Bild.
Now there s not that issue anymore behind which you can hide.
In my time here he [Aubameyang] never came too late.
Only one single time he skipped our team meeting and only one single time he practiced badly because he wanted to put a sign [out], apparently. But apart from that he behaved reasonably.
