Mikel Arteta's former mentor, Pep Guardiola, is among those managers who may have already answered the question as to whom should fill in as Arsenal's latest frontman

Pep Guardiola may well have provided the solution to Arsenal's striker crisis and if Mikel Arteta listened, he could yet have a major say in the Premier League title race

But even a year before Arteta was appointed as Arsenal boss, he was strongly linked with replacing Wenger. However, the club decided to opt for experience by bringing Unai Emery in. At the time, however, Arsene Wenger gave five reasons why Mikel Arteta would have even suited the job a year before he replaced Emery in the hotseat.