“We have Mourinho at Manchester United, Conte at Chelsea, Guardiola at Man City, Klopp at Liverpool, so it’s a little bit a world championship of managers as well.
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On the other hand, of course we are looking outside to strengthen”.
Lukas Klostermann is now on global duty with his country at the 2016 Olympics and would still not be able to start the Premier League if a deal goes through.
Gabriel suffered an ankle injury in the friendly win over Manchester City after a clash with Kelechi Iheanacho and Arsenal initially expected the 25-year-old to be unavailable for the remainder of 2016.
I’m sure there’s things going on behind the scenes, you know how long these deals take now.
The only good news is that Koscielny isn’t hurt and simply needs more time to get back to fitness, having gone all the way to the Euro final and only joined up with Arsenal for training this week.
Wenger, speaking at the Premier League launch day in London, also told Sky Sports that he realised his tenure might be coming to an end.
“Let’s not be naive, the economic power of the Premier League attracts the best players and the best managers”.
“When you look at the intensity, the amount of player that have brought since the opening of the transfer window, it’s not so many because all the big clubs want only top, top level players and there are none available.”
However, Wenger has moved to play down the seriousness of Wilshere’s latest setback and says that he is hopeful of a big season from the England worldwide. I think he shows that with his hunger every year.
“I must say his preparation was encouraging”.
The homegrown player sees no signs of his long-term manager stepping away from the role, despite ongoing speculation, and backed Wenger to hold his own in that “world championship”.
“I have not seen anything different in him”, the England global told Sky Sports.
“They reinforce their team each year and even though they didn’t make many transfers this summer, I think Arsenal will be among the title contenders”.
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“Everyone keeps saying it’s going to be his a year ago but he keeps going”.
