Some top Premier League clubs will have to look elsewhere this January if they were hoping to sign Dutch striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar.

He has agreed a two-year contract extension at Schalke to keep him in Germany until 2015.

The Hunter had been linked with Liverpool and Arsenal. Brendan Rodgers were probably out of the running already with Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge rumoured to be en route to a medical at Anfield.