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Gabonese coach Patrice Novo explained that Arsenal intend not to accept the addition of their star, Pierre Emeric Aubameyang, to the Gabonese national team after what happened at the Banjul airport in the Gambia this week.
The Gabonese team remained stuck at the Gambia’s Banjul airport from Sunday night to Monday morning, hours before the two teams face the next African Nations qualifiers, sparking great anger. between mission.
Novo said in remarks featured by the Express newspaper: “Arsenal officials contacted Aubameyang after seeing him under these circumstances. It is over … they will not allow him to rejoin the team.”
“It will be the same for the rest of the players from other clubs,” he added.
“This is understandable,” added the former Ismaili coach.
“All the players tried to sleep in the airport compound. Imagine if Aubameyang, a player who earns more than one million euros a month, gets injured. Nobody blames the English club after what happened.”
The airport authorities kept the players’ passports and officials from the Gambia federation were not present to finalize all the arrangements.
“I want to know why the Gambia saved our passports and held us at the airport. Are we hostages? Will you close your eyes? I want to see the next episode of this film,” Gabon captain Pierre Emerick Aubameyang wrote on his Twitter account .
The Arsenal star added: “What happened will not diminish our resolve, but people should know what happened, especially because they have those responsibilities.
“We are in 2020 and we want Africa to grow, this is not how we will get there,” he said.
The Gabonese national team left the Gambia airport on Monday morning.
Gabon won 2-1 against Gambia in the third round on the 12th of this month, while Gambia won by the same score in the fourth round meeting.
