Five Possible Arsenal Replacements For Lukas Podolski, Including Schalke Pair And The Emirates’ Forgotten Man

2) Julian Draxler – Schalke

Huntelaar’s Schalke team-mate is an entirely different type of player to the target man, but like Podolski, he gives Wenger an option down the left. Draxler is another star being chased by Europe’s biggest clubs, but the capture of Alexis Sanchez last summer proved that Arsenal are big enough and rich enough to compete with the world’s biggest, if they choose to. He’s been heavily, heavily linked in the past.