Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is desperate to leave Arsenal and is one of a few Gunners stars considering their futures.
Arsenal are set to make Mikel Arteta their new permanent boss after the Spaniard agreed a three-and-a-half year deal to return to his former club.
His first job will be to convince some of the club's biggest players, including Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette and Granit Xhaka, to buy into his project and commit their long-term futures to Arsenal.
But the Gunners' Gabon international striker Aubameyang may be a difficult man to convince.
The former Dortmund forward in unsettled at Arsenal and considering a move away when the transfer window opens in January.
He has been linked with a move to Real Madrid in recent months and Aubameyang has as he is unhappy with the current situation.
Arsenal are in a difficult position as Aubameyang's contract expires in 18 months, meaning the Gunners may be forced to sell now for cash or risk losing him on a free.
Aubameyang was made captain following the decision to strip Granit Xhaka of the armband, and incoming boss Arteta must solve growing tensions in a dressing room still unsettled by that fall-out.
The north London club, who spent big in the summer transfer window, are not blessed with huge funds, and Arteta has been made aware that he won't have much to spend in January.
Selling Aubameyang, who is now 30, may be one way he can raise funds to sign players that suit the system he will be looking to implement.
