Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is due to fall out of contract next summer and the Frenchman admits his future with the club depends on how they fare in the season ahead.
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“We picked up a few injuries in defence so we probably need to get a defender in”, he told Sky Sports.
He said that prognosis was “a bit better than we feared at the start”.
Arsène Wenger says that Gabriel Paulista will be out for six to eight weeks with the ankle injury that he suffered in last Sunday’s pre-season friendly against Manchester City in Sweden. “That is not to take anything from Leicester who had an exceptional season”. “They were absolutely, remarkably consistent”.
“You never know. You have to do it as if it is your whole life, but you know as well that you can stop at any moment”, he said. The longer I wait, the more hard it will be and the more hard it will be to lose the addiction. “I will always work”.
“It looks like that”. The expectation level everywhere is very high.
“The longer I wait, the more hard it will be and the more hard it will be to lose the addiction”.
And the Frenchman said he expected the arrival of the likes of Antonio Conte and Pep Guardiola to make the competition more hard than it has in the past.
Asked why the world’s top managers were attracted to English football, Wenger said: “Let’s not be naive”.
“I know that I will be back one day and playing at the Emirates and in the Premier league and that is what every footballer wants to do”.
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The only question that seems to remain is, will Wenger manage to complete a deal before the season opener on Saturday? “It makes the market more unpredictable”.
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Koscielny played for France at Euro 2016, featuring in the final defeat by Portugal, and has only just returned to training with Wenger reluctant to put him straight in the team.
