Arsenal: Julian Draxler will find no salvation with Unai Emery

Being perpetually linked to Julian Draxler, Arsenal now seem to have a better chance than ever with Unai Emery. But this is not a match worth making.

With the arrival of Unai Emery, Arsenal will now be even more fiercely linked to any and all PSG players. When once the only connection was that PSG was in France and Arsene Wenger is French, now the connection is that we have PSG’s old manager.

Which means that Julian Draxler is back in the hot seat. Or, as it is better known, the Arsenal transfer spectrum.

Draxler has been linked with the Gunners since he was back at FC Schalke. Also since that time, Draxler has made a series of transfers that have driven him wildly out of the footballing spectrum and off to the peripheries, where he may come up in conversation such as “hey, remember Julian Draxler?”

Arsenal has always stood out as a potential saving grace, or a salvation for Draxler. He hasn’t been given the time of day at PSG, especially now that Neymar and Kylian Mbappe are in town, and Wenger loves his creative attackers, of which Draxler is one.

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But with Unai Emery, things are different. This is a much different Arsenal Football Club, and Draxler would find that a move to North London may actually be another sequential poor move for his developing career.

It doesn’t just have to do with Emery, although that is a factor. Draxler lashed out at Emery back in March for not being used enough, and the basis of the recent reports is that Emery can promise him more playing time at the Emirates.

He can’t, though.

With Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan already embedded in the team, Draxler would be behind the eight ball already, not to mention the new emphasis on using Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out wide. It’s a cluster of veteran superstars, the likes of which Draxler can’t exactly compete with right now.

Not just that, but think of his playing style. He plays wide, yes, but is he a winger? No. He isn’t fast, he doesn’t stay wide, he doesn’t do any of the things a traditional winger does. He is an Alex Iwobi, a Thomas Lemar. He’s someone who lines up wide but would rather play centrally, and drifts in.

That is not a winger. That is an Emil Forsberg wannabe. There is no room for that at Arsenal unless someone else is leaving, which doesn’t seem likely.

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All in all, this is another one of those moves that is so far overdue that it doesn’t make sense anymore. And that’s a good thing. It means that the hole that Draxler once would have been perfect for has been filled.

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