Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is honest when it comes to admitting that he's keeping up-to-date with every development in the Premier League golden boot race.
The Gabon international has already scored 16 times this season, but faces competition from Sergio Aguero, Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane, with the trio scoring 18, 17 and 15 goals respectively.
So does Aubameyang keep a keen eye on the other fixtures?
"Yes, of course," Aubameyang told Ian Wright ahead of this weekend. "I always watch on my phone after the game, of course!
"You know that feeling, you have to check. It's not like in Germany. In Germany, okay, I knew that I had to check if Lewandowski scored! But here I have to check all the games for so many people.
"But it's cool, it's nice and it's a great challenge for a striker when you have a lot of good strikers in other teams.
"[Harry Kane] is playing for Spurs. But, I know he was playing for Arsenal before! But I look at him because I know he's a good striker and he scores goals a lot, a lot, a lot. So always when I check, he is always scoring.
Our forward has become synonymous with elaborate celebrations, once marking a goal in the Bundesliga with a Spider-Man mask - but will we ever see it make a return?
"Why not? I just moved house and I found it.
"But I want to change... I want a new mask. I don't tell. I keep the surprise but I need something that represents me.
"So I have an idea. You will know soon!"
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