I just want to win games. Despite being a gritty and hard-working player, the 22-year-old has struggled to fight his own battles in maintaining fitness. Let’s not forget that he missed a year ago. you can’t afford to be out two seasons without playing at the top level.
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However, due to a number of injuries sustained over the years, Wilshere has failed to reach the heights many expected him to.
When it was first reported that Jack Wilshere could possibly leave Arsenal for the 2016/17 season in a loan deal, many were shocked, including a big chunk of Gunner fans.
But despite being as near to an institution as exists in English top-flight football, Wenger is not going to be around for ever.
He was concerned he would not get enough competition early enough.
“I couldn’t guarantee that, so that’s why [we took] the decision”.
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has dismissed speculation that he could succeed Arsene Wenger at Arsenal as “meaningless” and insists he is fully committed to the Cherries. Personally, I hope he stays here for his whole career.
“He has a real football brain and understands football”.
And therefore the Arsenal manager feels loaning Wilshere out for a season to help him get back to his best was only a logical decision, given his lack of football over the last couple of campaigns.
“I see him in the future at this club of course”.
Intriguingly, any move for Howe would likely see Wenger move upstairs for a period of time as director of football, to give the new man time to bed in.
“He has an eye on everybody, it’s in him. It’s in him. You either have that or you haven’t got it, but he’s a real football man”. In August 2005 he said: ‘I know we live in a world where we have only winners and losers, but once a sport encourages teams who refuse to take the initiative, the sport is in danger’. “With the way I like to play, that’s an interesting quality”.
Wenger has primarily played Wilshere in a deeper central role or on the right flank recently, while former England manager Roy Hodgson used him as the base of a diamond midfield. If you try to then you come unstuck.
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Wenger, asked Friday if Wilshere’s Arsenal career was in jeopardy, replied: “No, not at all, no”.
