Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will miss Borussia Dortmund's game against Manchester City on Thursday.
Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has taken to social media to rant at the media who he claims has twisted his words about joining La Liga giants Real Madrid.
The Gabon international finished the 2015-16 season with 39 goals to take his tally with Dortmund to 54 goals in 94 appearances, and has been the subject of transfer speculation all summer.
Having revealed in an interview last year that he made a promise to his late grandfather -- a Real Madrid fan -- that he will play in Spain one day, a move to the Bernabeu has been rumoured to be on the cards.
He did not help matters when he told ZDF, that the only club he will leave Dortmund for is Madrid, and that if they "don't come calling, I don't leave."
Things took a different direction when Aubameyang came out on social media and claimed that the media "transformed his words."
A photo posted by Aubameyang (@aubameyang97) on
Jul 27, 2016 at 7:25am PDT"Hello journalists, just to be clear, I can read everywhere something that I never said 'only Real Madrid can take me from Dortmund," he said in a post on social media.
"I don't know who transforms my words but I'm sad that people do like [what] they want.
"I'm [a] player from Borussia Dortmund and in any interviews I was honest with you to say that it was my dream since I'm young, but not more."
Aubameyang will miss Dortmund's International Champions Cup match against Manchester City in China on Thursday, having flown back home to be with his pregnant wife.
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