LONDON: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joined Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund for a club-record fee of around 」56 million on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), with Olivier Giroud moving to Chelsea as part of a complicated transfer jigsaw.

But as the clock ticked down to the closure of the transfer window in England at 2300 GMT, Manchester City were reported to have pulled out of a move to sign Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez.

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