Aidan11 wrote:budgetmeansbudget wrote:Alot of Arsenal fans appear to want to finish fifth to hasten Wenger's departure.
Trouble is he's more stubborn than a red wine stain, and you can't see the board ever sacking him.
He has a year left on his contract and I reckon next season will be his last at Arsenal.
There were rumours last two months that the board already offered him a 2/3 year extension, and were keen for him to sign. It seems that Wenger will leave on his own terms, and that even he has been slow to take up the offer so far.
Reading the Arsenal blogs, it seems the board in recent years have shifted composition to remove a lot of the old "football" heads for businessmen. So the club as a whole are currently favouring the status quo, as Wenger takes on the role of being the only sport savvy cog in the whole organisation. Removing him, and they dont have the administrative setup in place to cope without him, as a new manager would no doubt want to focus on the playing staff only, not the high level involvement.