Robert Lewandowski has revealed how his Poland team-mate Wojciech Szczesny tried to talk him into snubbing a move to Bayern Munich to join Arsenal.

The Borussia Dortmund striker, who will join Bayern at the end of the season having agreed a deal in January, had been a long-term target for Arsène Wenger but was always likely to stay in the Bundesliga.

"I can confirm that Wojciech Szczesny tried to convince me to join Arsenal," Lewandowski told the Polish tabloid Fakt.

"We had several talks about this. It was him who did most of the talking, how the club looks inside, what Arsène Wenger thinks of me.

"When we trained before the Champions League games at Colney, there were important people from Arsenal at our sessions as well."

Arsenal are still confident of being able to lure their prime target, Schalke's Julian Draxler, to the Emirates in the summer, although the German club will do their best to convince the midfielder to stay.

"It would do Draxler good to spend another year or two with us," the Schalke chairman, Clemens Tonnies, said 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."