Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang never felt like the answer to many questions over the summer. He doesn't feel like the answer to many now.
The point of a striker 'that just scores goals' is that they still have to get the ball in some way. Chelsea aren't giving Aubameyang that. When they do, his passing is really poor. It's so poor that when you start to actually analyse his passing and watch him try to link play you realise how inadequate that part of his game is, but that's not why you sign him.
These things don't matter in the short term if you can get him the ball. When Graham Potter has Reece James - when anyone has Reece James - things become easier. Anything is possible. He can create things from nothing and find the striker tuned into one frequency, goals FM. It's no surprise that all of Aubameyang's four Chelsea goals came with James on the field. Half of them he assisted.
