Julian Draxler: Schalke chairman hopes Arsenal target can be convinced to stay - and claims the midfielder does not want move to Bayern Munich

German midfielder is contracted with the Bundesliga side until 2018

Julian Draxler, in blue, has been valued at £37m (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)

Schalke chairman Clemens Tonnies hopes he can convince Julian Draxler to stay another year with his club, although he knows the Germany international will leave eventually.

Draxler was subject of a considerable bid from an unnamed club this winter and while he can leave for a set fee of 45.5million euros in the summer, Tonnies hopes he will stay.

"It would do Draxler good to spend another year or two with us," said Tonnies at the SpoBiS exhibition in Dusseldorf.

"But we know we're not going to be able to keep a super-talented player like Julian at Schalke forever.

"If another club comes in for him, then we cannot block them. That would be unfair.

"I don't think he wants to join Bayern Munich, though."

Draxler is still contracted to Schalke until 2018 but interest is growing in the 20-year-old, who became the youngest ever Bundesliga player to make 100 appearances while still only 19 last March.