WENGER IS STAYING !

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

The interviewer asked: Will you stay or will you go at the end of the season?

The Frenchman, who has been the Gunners' manager since 1996, replied: "Look, I've said that many times already, I've given my word to this club and I want to continue where I am."

Then, after a long pause, he added: "That means to stay."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...t-saga-3458736

2 more years of Wenger until one of the top managers become available, then in summer 2016 we can say goodbye to Wenger and welcome one of them on board. Sounds about right.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

The interviewer asked: Will you stay or will you go at the end of the season?

The Frenchman, who has been the Gunners' manager since 1996, replied: "Look, I've said that many times already, I've given my word to this club and I want to continue where I am."

Then, after a long pause, he added: "That means to stay."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...t-saga-3458736

2 more years of Wenger until one of the top managers become available, then in summer 2016 we can say goodbye to Wenger and welcome one of them on board. Sounds about right.

Doesn't say anything that he's been not saying for months. He wants to stay and I think he feels confident that he will attain the goals of 4th place and FA cup that will allow him to stay (by that I mean the fan feeling against him won't be so bad that he will call it a day). I hope that confidence feeds its way through to the players.

[Özim]

2 more years of 4th place, frustration and collapses. Maybe we should all come back in 2 years time, we know what will happen in advance after all, he epitomises predictability.

[Özim]

Doesn't say anything that he's been not saying for months. He wants to stay and I think he feels confident that he will attain the goals of 4th place and FA cup that will allow him to stay (by that I mean the fan feeling against him won't be so bad that he will call it a day). I hope that confidence feeds its way through to the players.

If he wants to stay, he'll stay regardless of anything else, the board will never get rid of him, all they do is praise him. He decides his own future at the club.

[Marc Overmars]

I just hope there are some decent managers available for us in 2016.

[Munchies]

Monaco are offering a double your money contract to him, so I think he'll end up there in the next 2 years.

Klopp's contract is till 2018.

[Globalgunner]

is any club out there, apart from us looking to sign a 65 year old manager who hasnt won anything in almost a decade. I think not.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

If he wants to stay, he'll stay regardless of anything else, the board will never get rid of him, all they do is praise him. He decides his own future at the club.

My point being is he won't want to stay without the two things I have mentioned. I think he is confident that he will achieve both. Within the last two weeks he's got to the FA cup final and a top four spot is whilst not nailed down, in our own hands.
Do I think he has overstayed his welcome? Yes do I think he should be forced out if we win the FA cup? No.

[Letters]

If it annoys Zim then I'm all for it

Seriously, if we win the FA Cup and finish 4th then it will have been a decent season. One could argue he'd deserve a chance to build on that, especially having got the monkey off our back of not winning trophies. Anything else and he should go.

[Letters]

If he wants to stay, he'll stay regardless of anything else, the board will never get rid of him, all they do is praise him. He decides his own future at the club.

Because he's meeting their targets. If he wasn't, he'd have been out long ago. He has kept us top 4 which seems to be what the board expects.
I know, you don't care, but the wider footballing world does if you look at the money clubs are throwing around to get there. A 'top 4' is a completely artificial thing which has been created by the CL but we are where we are and like it or not it is recognised, not just at Arsenal, as an achievement.

I don't think many managers at this level would have kept their job having not won a trophy for this long.
But I don't think many managers would lose their job if they finish 4th and win the FA Cup, if that's what happens.