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BERLIN, May 22-- If the rumors are true, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will have one more week in a Borussia Dortmund shirt. The 2017 German champion and the 27-year old Gabon international are expected to announce the departure of the Bundesliga's top goal-scorer next week after this coming Saturday's cup final in Berlin against Eintracht Frankfurt. The player and his management have not yet announced where he will be going to but it seems certain he will leave Dortmund where insiders expect he will join the 2017 league runners-up Paris St. Germain. Both parties have been negotiating for several weeks. Aubameyang regularly spends time in the French capital as several of his friends live there. Heading for Paris means Aubameyang will not link up with the Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian who are said to have offered 25 million euro a season. Chelsea's Diego Costa is, according to reports, on the wanted list too. In addition to Paris and Quanjian, the Italian club AC Milan is also said to be interested. Dortmund's managing director Michael Zorc confirmed that his club will have a meeting with Aubameyang in as early as next week to make a final decision. Paris will have to pay up to 70 million euro to sign the French-born striker. Zorc and club CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke have recently told the German media on several occasions that they intend to keep Aubameyang whose contract runs until 2020. Insiders meanwhile are saying there is an agreement between club and player allowing him to depart if the transfer sum is over 70 million euro. | 
