I wonder whether this one year rumour thing has any legs in it?
It would show up the total ineptitude of this board that they have not put any succession plans in place and have gone begging cap in hand for Wenger to stay one more year so that they can start planning.
Of course, there are other way to interpret that scenario.
The contract is a McGuffin anyway. Clearly He could stay and work until, say, Christmas without one and it wouldn't make any difference to anything.
I suppose they just feel announcing it at the wrong moment would be asking for it.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."