Dortmund CEO - We would consider €80 million Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang bid

Published 25/01/2017 at 10:34 GMT

Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has admitted that the club would have to consider a bid of €80 million (£68.5 million) for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were it to come in.

Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts

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Aubameyang, 27, has been linked to a host of clubs in the past few transfer windows, most notably Manchester City and Real Madrid.

Dortmund, who have sold star players Mario Gotze, Mats Hummels and Henrikh Mkhitaryan amongst others in the past, have also stressed that he wouldn't be sold.

Gabon's forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts at the end of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations group A football match between Cameroon and Gabon at the Stade de l'Amitie Sino-Gabonaise in Libreville on January 22, 2017.

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Speaking to Kicker TV however Watzke said that should a big bid of €80 million come in then they would have to sit down and discuss it with the player.

“We can never guarantee that a player will stay with Borussia Dortmund forever, but our strength is to always find new solutions,

“With an €80m offer, I would be thinking about Rauball and Zorc. If we had one (an offer), we would have to get together with Pierre-Emerick.

Aubameyang (Dortmund)

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“We always have to differentiate between situations where there is such an offer, but we have no pressure... I would prefer it if no offer came.”

Aubameyang, who has always spoken of a desire to play for Real Madrid to fulfil a promise he made to his grandfather, has been in excellent form this season and he is the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 16 goals.

He is on his way back to the club after participating in the Africa Cup of Nations, where he was the captain of the host team Gabon but they were knocked out at the group stages.

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