‘Not as easy as it looks’ could be Wenger preparing Arsenal fans for the worst | Paul Wilson


Arsenal’s manager may be admitting in the most roundabout of ways that his side will have a better excuse for falling short this season than most years

Arsène Wenger has just reached the doublethink stage. His pronouncements have been becoming more and more gnomic. He said we would know about his future “very soon”, for instance, yet we are still guessing more than a fortnight and an international break later, but his latest takes us into the verbal equivalent of a hall of mirrors.

“It is a good challenge [to achieve a top-four finish] but I think it is perfectly possible,” the Arsenal manager said. “I have done it for 20 years and it looked always like nothing. Suddenly it becomes important, so I am quite pleased people realise it is not as easy as it looks.”

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