Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Not the board - the shareholders! The ones who stood to make all the cash and when you stand back and take a look it certainly appears the last few seasons have been all about setting the club up for sale. That seems to have been the #1 priority. Can Wenger dictate on something like that? I doubt it. £500mill and even PHW can grow a set. There was more to the Fabregas/ Nasri thing than has been made public, enough slipped out to suggest Wenger may not have been fully on board. But as is the way with any company hierarchy, the shareholders will trump the manager every time if they insist. Maybe it's true that a prospective replacement for Wenger would demand investment, our lot would probably settle for no manager at all then.

Pretty much. AW obviously knows alot and the board know if they let him go now. he will expose more then they want right now. So backing him is their way of keeping him quiet etc.