Arsène Wenger is determined to stay on as Arsenal manager despite the club going through one of its worst season under the Frenchman, reported the Guardian.
Wenger’s team were thrashed 3-1 at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday and they lie sixth in the table, six points behind fourth-placed Liverpool. They were outclassed in the Champions League by Bayern Munich as they lost 10-2 on aggregate. The loss at West Brom intensified calls for the manager to be replaced at the end of the season when his current contract expires. On Sunday, reports emerged from Germany that Arsenal had made an official approach to the Borussia Dortmund manager, Thomas Tuchel. However, this is not supposed to be the case.
The Arsenal board have stood in support of Wenger despite his horrendous run this season. Wenger has the offer of a new two-year contract on the table as well. He said at The Hawthorns that he had made up his mind about what he was going to do regarding his future. “You will know soon,” he said. “Very soon.”
With fans frustrated, the club clearly has to sort this issue as soon as possible as calls of Wenger Out continue to intensify. They face Manchester City on April 2 after the international break and the Gunners need to get their act together if they are to play Champions League next year.
Wenger said, ‘Everybody in life is responsible for his own behaviour. I’m responsible for my own behaviour. I don’t judge other people. I give my best. As long as I am at the club, whether for two more years, 10 more years or four more months, that will not be different. As for all the rest, everybody has to look at themselves.”
With Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil clearly not happy at the club, Arsenal also seem to be suffering from a player’s revolt within the squad against Wenger. They have featured in the Champions League since 1996, however, Wenger thinks his future isn’t dependent on European glory. “It will not necessarily be linked with that because I’ve done the top four 20 times,” he said. “It’s more … it’s not that. I take a bigger perspective. It’s not the last result that will decide what I will do.”
He even said that not playing Champions League football would just be a blow on the sporting font and not financial. So is it all down to the money and not love of the game? “Of course on the sporting front it would be a blow but financially the Champions League does not have the impact any more that it had five or six years ago because of the influx of the television money. That was for a long time the case but not today,” said Wenger.
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