Wenger isn’t moving upstairs.
And Pep Guardiola isn’t coming.
No manager would want Wenger as a backseat driver.
Wenger’s babies would run squealing to daddy every time Pep asked them to do something they’d never done before.
Pep hasn’t signed another contract with Barca and has asked for more time to think about it. Those closest to him say he’ll take a one-year sabbatical.
Obvious question : Why would a Catalan hero walk away from the greatest team we’ve seen since the Fifties and the finest player since Pele?
The 2013 Champions League Final is at Wembley again and if Pep wins it in Munich this year, who not go for three in a row?
Because the pressure is too intense? Maybe.
To take a break from president Sandro Rosell?
Fact : Pep’s English has improved beyond measure in the last year.
John Cross says Wenger will stay two more years and will have £55 million to spend in the summer.
What marvellous news for the recidivist academy-raider!
Your favourite French dictator will buy three teenagers.
The Telegraph’s Jeremy Wilson says Stan Kroenke will fly in for Thursday’s board meeting, so I’m wondering what Stan can sell while he’s over here.
The transfer window is closed but Stan will think of something.
In The Times, football editor Tony Evans says Wenger has to go before his legacy is tarnished.
After 16 years, he’s so grown so stale, it’s time to move on. His policies, the culture he has created on and off the pitch, have failed.
Tony Evans is right.
That needs to be said.
And repeated.
But why has the mainstream media taken so long to react to Arsenal’s year-by-year decline?
A decline that has accelerated alarmingly ever since Arsenal lost the Carling Cup Final to Birmingham, a team that was then relegated.