Andre Schurrle is the ideal replacement for Henrikh Mkhitaryan, says Thomas Tuchel

The Armenian left the German club earlier this summer to join the Jose Mourinho revolution at Manchester United, but they decided to reinvest the money to buy World Cup winner Schurrle from Wolfsburg.

And Tuchel has said he couldn't be happier with his latest signing.

"With Mkhitaryan's departure, we have lost a player who can play on the wings and there are not a whole lot of players like him. Schurrle is one of the them, though,” said Tuchel, as reported by Goal.

"That's why we so desperately needed Schurrle, because we lost Mkhitaryan playing like this.”

Schurrle scored nine goals in the Bundesliga last season, two less than his adversary. He also created 62 less chances, which included just three assists compared to Mkhitaryan's league best 15.

Mkhitaryan followed Ilkay Gundogan and Mats Hummels out of the Dortmund door earlier this summer in what looked like to be another damaging transfer window for the club.

However, they have reinvested the money received into eight new players so far, with Schurrle being the latest big name to come in, after Mario Gotze, Ousmane Dembele, Emre Mor and Sebastian Rode.

Marc Bartra, Raphael Guerreiro and Mikel Merino have also been bought by the Bundesliga runners up.

Dortmund's pre-season got off to a perfect start with a 4-1 victory over Mourinho's United, with the only blotch for them being their old player Mkhitaryan opened his goalscoring account for United.