Normal Sport understands the summer season signing has not been made accessible for switch however was the topic of an enquiry from Atletico Madrid throughout negotiations for Joao Felix to go the opposite approach.
It quickly got here to gentle that Aubameyang can be unable to hitch Atleti having already performed for each Chelsea and Barcelona this season, and FIFA guidelines limit a participant from showing for 3 golf equipment throughout the identical home calendar.
Barca had been then linked with bringing the striker again to Camp Nou, with the likes of Memphis Depay more likely to go away, however once more Aubameyang has been thwarted by the rulebook.
Spanish soccer prevents gamers from being registered twice by the identical crew in the identical season.
Article 141.5 of the RFEF (Spain’s Soccer Federation) laws states: “Gamers whose license is cancelled, might not, in the middle of of the identical season, get hold of a license in the identical crew of the membership on the that had been already linked.”
That leaves only a few choices for Aubameyang and Chelsea, ought to they resolve to half methods.
One is Main League Soccer in the US, as Article 5.3 concerning registration of gamers in FIFA laws state: “A participant shifting between two golf equipment belonging to associations with overlapping seasons (i.e. begin of the season in summer season/autumn versus winter/spring) could also be eligible to play in official matches for a 3rd membership in the course of the related season, supplied he has totally complied along with his contractual obligations in the direction of his earlier golf equipment.”
As MLS runs from February to October, slightly than the European mannequin of August to Might, Aubameyang can be allowed to play for a 3rd membership inside seven months.
