Four players to fill Fabianski’s gloves at Arsenal

3. John Ruddy (Norwich)

Ruddy is a man who would jump at the chance and possibly needs to return to the Premier League immediately if he is to regain his position in the national team squad, but a season in which he made more individual errors than the entirety of Hull is hardly a great advertisement for him to join a top flight club.

With the newspapers quoting a fee of £6m, it would again send a message to Szczesny, but he would no doubt fancy his chances of retaining his place ahead of England’s number five.

Saying that, Ruddy still kept 12 clean sheets this season to keep only four fewer than Szczesny despite playing for a side that ended the season with relegation, averaging 2.39 saves per game and making 1.54 saves for every goal conceded.

Ruddy has the ability to get a move back into the Premier League and he could yet rise to the occasion when faced with a bigger stage, definitely able to do a job in the cup competitions if he follows the path laid out by Fabianski.

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4. Julian Speroni (Crystal Palace)

It seems an almost daft suggestion, given that Tony Pulis has decided he doesn’t want him at Palace anymore, but that came as a surprise given how well Speroni has played this season.

Speroni was one of those players instrumental in ensuring Palace stayed up comfortably and while a rigid defence can take a large amount of the praise, Speroni was still called upon to make an average of 2.24 saves per game.

A saves to goal ratio of 1.89 was only marginally bettered by Szczesny and helped him on the way to 12 clean sheets and he could be of real use to keeping the current Arsenal stopper on his toes next season.

The end of a contract means he will be available on a free to allow Wenger to focus his funds on attacking targets and his knowledge of the English game and life in London could prove ideal to have around the club.