• Age: 27
• Current club: Napoli
• Contract until: 2022
• Market value: £22.5m

Faouzi Ghoulam is a bit older, and probably a bit more expensive, but he’s an option to come in and immediately replace Monreal in the first team, taking the pressure off Kolašinac.

The media linked the Algerian left-back with Arsenal a lot last year, before the club eventually signed the Bosnian instead.

Then, in February, the Italian media reported that the main reason behind Napoli extending Ghoulam’s contract to 2022 was that they’d heard of interest from Arsenal. They were trying to “avoid any surprises” in the January window.

His new deal has a €35m (£31m) release clause, which still isn’t a crazy amount to pay in today’s market.

When available, Ghoulam has shown a lot of quality, and helped Napoli to 10 wins in 11 matches at the start of the league season. The only thing holding Arsenal back would be his current injury problems, as he’s yet to return from his cruciate ligament rupture in November.

He did make the bench for the final games of the season though.