CSKA Moscow striker Seydou Doumbia will be out for two months with a back injury, he said Friday.
Doumbia, who has been linked with Arsenal as a possible replacement for Robin van Persie, picked up the injury before last week's league clash between CSKA and Anzhi, which he missed.
"Doctors have told me that I will probably be unavailable for CSKA approximately two months," he said on his official Facebook page.
Reports in the Ivorian media had claimed that doctors had forbidden him from any physical activity for three months.
"I'm following a treatment for my injured back (and nothing else as mentioned by some Ivory Coast newspapers)," Doumbia said.
Doumbia, 24, joined CSKA in 2010 from Young Boys Bern, where he was twice ranked top scorer in the Swiss league, and was top scorer in the Russian Premier League last year with 28 goals.
He is under contract at the Russian club for three more years.
The Ivorian international scored 28 goals in 42 league games for CSKA Moscow in 2011-12, but the team failed to qualify for the Champions League after a 3-1 defeat to Rubin Kazan on the last day of the season.
He has scored two goals in 19 appearances for the Ivory Coast, and featured largely as a substitute in the team’s run to the final of the 2012 African Cup of Nations.
CSKA are ninth in the Russian league with six points from four games. Doumbia's only goal so far this season came in the season-opening 1-0 win over FC Rostov.
