Very few managers are left in contemporary soccer who are being associated with their age old teams for more than fifteen years, and as we know Alex, the well-known soccer brain, retired last year from Manchester United’s top position after serving one of the most successful careers. If we talk about other parallel managers who are still with English soccer despite not being as successful as Alex has been, French football manager Arsene Wenger comes to our mind who is enjoying his seventeenth year with Holloway side. In fact, he is close to complete his 1000th match for The Invincibles which is a notable achievement considering the uncertainty in modern soccer where managers are fired and hired every other day. There has recently been a talk in sports media that he would soon be offered another extension to applaud his long serving loyalty towards the side, but no one has until said it with full confidence since Wenger himself never discussed about this in public. But, if media vibes are to be believed, this 64-year-old legendary could soon be offered an extension to recognize the hard work he has done in seventeen long years, however, some sources have also said that his 1000th match would be the occasion to announce this contract extension.
If we look at the current EPL season, Arsenal is of course among the top contenders to take the crown and this is something that cherishes Wenger even more as he reportedly agreed to serve further to enlarge his association with one of the most successful English clubs. When media a guy exaggeratedly asked him questions about his future and if he would love to enlarge his association with Holloway side, he politely replied, “I think so, yes. I want to do well, and the expectation level and the impatience is there. My desire is to stay. My commitment is full. I do not want to look somewhere else. I want to stay here. There shouldn’t be any uncertainty at all.
“It will be done soon, but I want now to focus on the end of the season. My loyalty to this club should never be questioned.” He talked baoute the changes he sees in today’s Arsenal to that of Bruce Rioch’s army that he took over back in 1996 and added, “I changed a few habits, which isn’t easy in a team where the average age is 30 years.At the first match the players were chanting ‘we want our Mars bars’. Then, at halftime I asked my physio Gary Lewin: ‘Nobody is talking, what’s wrong with them?’ He replied: ‘They are hungry’. I hadn’t given them their chocolate before the game. It was funny.”