Borussia Dortmund's 10 best signings of the decade (2010-2019)

#7 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (2013)

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 141 goals for Dortmund

It sounds crazy to imagine it now, but in the 2013-14 season, Borussia Dortmund was home to both Robert Lewandowski and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – both of whom would go onto be recognised as amongst the world’s deadliest strikers. At that stage, Lewandowski was already widely renowned, but his Gabonese teammate had not quite reached those heights despite performing well in France with Saint-Etienne.

21 goals in 45 games for the French side was enough to cause Dortmund to part with somewhere around €13m for the Gabonese striker, and while his first season was relatively successful – he scored 16 goals in all competitions – it was once Lewandowski left in the summer of 2014 that he really took off at the Westfalenstadion.

Aubameyang became the club’s leading striker and would go onto score a total of 141 goals in 213 games for Die Schwarzgelben, using his incredible pace and finishing ability to devastating effect. Before he was sold to Arsenal in January 2018, the Gabon international had helped Dortmund to the DFB-Pokal in 2016-17 – the same season that saw him beat Lewandowski to the Bundesliga’s Golden Boot.

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