Bayern Munich reserve team striker Kwasi Wriedt has been called up to play for Ghana.

Wriedt, 23, was born in Hamburg to Ghanaian parents and is Bayern's top scorer with 20 goals in their Regionalliga side, which will finish as runners-up to local rivals TSV Munich 1860.

"Initially I was speechless." Wriedt told Bild. "I am very pleased to be able to play for my parents' homeland. I am making my family and friends proud. It's the icing on the cake of an exciting year."

Wriedt joined Bayern last summer for €500,000 from third division side Osnabruck and made his first-team debut as a substitute in the penalty shootout success against Leipzig in the DFB Pokal second round last October. He also made his Bundesliga debut as a substitute in the 2-1 defeat at Borussia Monchengladbach in November.

Wriedt said that he had received an invitation via Email to meet up with the Ghana squad for friendly internationals in Japan on May 30 and Iceland on June 7.

"Two weeks ago, national coach Kwesi Appiah contacted me for the first time and told me his plan for Ghana to have a new playing style with younger players and I should be a part of this," Wriedt said.

However, before leaving for international duty on May 20, Wriedt first has to play in Bayern's final reserve team fixture of the season in Seligenporten on Saturday.

Arsenal are taking their time. The pace of change is glacial.

They could have jumped straight in to get Carlo Ancelotti after he was fired by Napoli on Tuesday. But the inside word from ESPN sources is that for all his pedigree, the 60-year-old Italian is not high on the Gunners' wish list. It's a surprise. On the face of it, the old charmer seems a good fit at a club that likes to think it has class and style.

Over 1,000 matches and 20 trophies -- including a league and cup double at Chelsea and three European crowns -- speaks of a coach who knows how to operate at a big club. Then again, Ancelotti has lost his job at both Bayern Munich and Napoli in recent times, and it's possible Arsenal have doubts about whether his laid-back style can effect the kind of transformation they need. This is a club that consistently finished in the top four and were Champions League regulars, yet they're now slumming it on Thursday nights in the Europa League for a third successive season.

So if not Ancelotti, then who? Especially bearing in mind that a lot needs to change at Arsenal.

The club looks flimsy, failing to record a single clean sheet in their past 13 games. A fruitless search for the major central defensive signing they needed ended with an emergency deadline deal for the error-prone David Luiz. And where is the steel in midfield? Lucas Torreira does not look the answer, Matteo Guendouzi is gifted but raw and Granit Xhaka was stripped of the captaincy after his ill-tempered tantrum when substituted against Crystal Palace.

Up front, Arsenal will get goals with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette and the emerging Gabriel Martinelli. But ninth place, seven points back from the top four, is about as good as they have been. So who can change the mood music and add the confidence, consistency and intensity that Arsenal lack?