There are some moments in life when you just sit back and enjoy what you see, admire a player, his presence, his dazzling abilities and the ease with which he turns an opposing defender and shies his way past or shoots a spectacular volley with thumps the net. If at all there is one player who first comes to mind, as the January Transfer Window is imminent in a month and a half’s time, its Schalke’s Julian Draxler.
Draxler worked his way through the ranks at Schalke and much before his celebrated debut behind closed doors he was making noises for his displays in the youth level. In 2011, Draxler won the Fritz Walter Medal at the under 18 level, an award that recognizes potential among the U17, 18 and 19 levels in German Football. In no time the young German was touted as a potential who could go on and become of the world’s best ever playmakers drawing comparisons with his national teammate Mesut ozil, now at Arsenal. Speaking of Arsenal, let me fantasize why they need the young Scahlke player at the Emirates come at the end of the January Transfer Window.
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The 20 year old’s meteoric rise hasn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has seen him behind closed doors or the youth level. An attacking playmaker who can definitely play as a second striker is sure to enhance an Arsenal squad who are on the look out for a new striker this January. His defensive abilities have been questioned and critics have labelled him as someone who doesn’t track back to help his side’s defence but they don’t realize that he has age on his hands and has immense calibre to raise his already brilliant game to the next level. If at all he does come to Arsenal Wenger might use him as the second striker playing in the pockets just behind Giroud which might reap huge benefits.