{"id":465530,"date":"2025-10-01T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:36:18","slug":"i-couldve-gone-to-arsenal-german-attacker-also-reveals-liverpool-transfer-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465530\/","title":{"rendered":"“I could’ve gone to Arsenal” – German attacker also reveals Liverpool transfer effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal and Liverpool have been looking towards the Bundesliga to shop for years. The Premier League pair are among clubs who regularly send scouts to the country and have a record of purchases.<\/p>\n

Not all transfer efforts end the way the clubs intend. Arsenal especially have a long list of players who they nearly signed. It almost became a meme during the Arsene Wenger tenure, with nearly every breakthrough player having just missed out on the Gunners.<\/p>\n

One of those players is Julian Draxler, who early in his career was one of the most wanted German youngsters around. Now 32-years-of age he\u2019s in the winter of his career and picking up the money at Al Ahli in Qatar.<\/p>\n

Before that, Draxler had played for the likes of Schalke, Wolfsburg, PSG and Benfica. That list could have easily included Arsenal, Liverpool or both.<\/p>\n

Draxler has granted a long interview to this week\u2019s edition of SportBild<\/a>. He was asked if there\u2019s a moment in his career to which he\u2019d return and make a different decision.<\/p>\n

To that, the attacking midfielder replied: \u201cThere are several. When I was still very young at Schalke and extended my contract, I could have gone to Arsenal. Honestly, I\u2019d be interested to see what would have become of me if I had learned from Arsene Wenger so early. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve also wondered what would have happened if I hadn\u2019t gone from Wolfsburg to Paris, but to J\u00fcrgen Klopp at Liverpool. I had that opportunity, too. Nevertheless, I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m at peace with my decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal and Liverpool have been looking towards the Bundesliga to shop for years. The Premier League pair are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-465530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115298473327825662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}