Borussia Dortmund youngster Mikel Merino believes team-mate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is tailor-made for Real Madrid.
Aubameyang, regularly linked with the Bernabeu, scored on his 150th appearance for Dortmund as they kept up the pressure on Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga with an impressive 3-1 win over Freiberg on Friday night.
The Gabon striker's latest goal maintains his over one-in-two strike rate for BVB and takes his total for the club to 86.
Merino, a summer signing from La Liga outfit Osasuna, has been converted into a defender at the Westfalenstadion and has to deal with Aubameyang at the training ground on a daily basis.
It is that experience of having to regularly defend against Aubameyang, coupled with the striker's impressive goal return, that has convinced the Spanish youth international his team-mate would be at home playing for Spanish giants Real.
Merino told Goal.com: 'Aubameyang is a bullet. I knew it [before I was converted into a defender], but when you have to defend against him as centre-back, you can feel it much more.
'Not just because of his speed, but also for his good movements and his finishing. He's a top player.
'Would he fit at Real Madrid? The strikers there need to score and make a difference. He does it.
'He would fit, of course. He is doing what Real Madrid ask to their strikers. I don't know why he couldn't play there.'
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