Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has told his coaching staff at the club that he will not step aside this summer.
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Leicester and Algeria forward Riyad Mahrez, 27, says his failed move to Manchester City in January “was a hard situation” but that he “will give everything” for the Foxes while he is at the club.
Those Arsenal supporters calling for his head will take some convincing, while Arsenal skipper Laurent Koscielny claimed Wenger must take his share of the blame.
“We are hypothetically speaking before people jump ahead of everything, [but] I have never backed down from a challenge since I was young”. He won FA and two FA Community Shields before his contract expired at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Arsenal are on course to finish what will be a disappointing Premier League campaign sitting sixth in the table, with the top five teams performing much much better than the Gunners.
“We have (had) a bad period and did not have the results we wanted”.
“What happens if it goes the wrong way against Milan?”.
“We spoke before about how we had done really well against Manchester United, but that against everyone else we found it really hard”.
“We need to stay together, to fight together”, he said. “That is the glimmer of hope”.
Arsenal manager #Arsene Wenger is reportedly being eyed by Premier League side Everton as a replacement for Sam Allardyce at Goodison Park. Furthermore, it’s suggested in the report that some of them see the Spaniard of having too high an opinion of himself and arrogant; characteristics which alienated him from his teammates during his time at the Emirates as a player.
“I was very complimentary about him coming into this game and I will always remain very complimentary”.
“The Arsenal players are not doing that at the moment”. They went ‘Bang, see you later.’ Off again, who’s the next fighter.
“Earn the right to play and then your skill will come out”. Do you understand what I mean?
Whether it’s a Championship side, a team anywhere from first to practically last in the Premier League, or even a Swedish outfit whose league season hasn’t even begun, they can find a way to get beaten. “Of course the Europa League becomes important”, the Arsenal manager added.
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Sol Campbell spoke to Independent.ie in association with Paddy Power.
