Arsene Wenger tipped for Arsenal’s potential first director of football as club get ready for summer overhaul
ARSENE WENGER could become Arsenal’s first ever director of football in a move that would keep him at the club beyond his 21-year spell as manager.
The Frenchman has been at Arsenal since 1996 but with the club stagnating this season, there have been huge fan protests over his continued reign.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger at the training ground with Robert PiresGetty Images
And according to The Express, the club are eyeing a compromise with suggestions the 67-year-old could become a director of football.
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The paper have also suggested that Thierry Henry could become a head coach, in a gamble similar to the one made when the club appointed Wenger in the first place.
Henry is the club’s leading goalscorer and one of Arsenal’s greatest ever players, but his only coaching experience is working under Roberto Martinez with the Belgium team.
Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are two Arsenal players reportedly facing the chopNews Group Newspapers Ltd
Wenger has promised to announce a decision over his future soon, but according to the Mail, they are still set to sell up to NINE players in a summer transfer spree.
England stars Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jack Wilshere are being tipped as players who could be first on the chopping block, with the latter currently on loan at Bournemouth.
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