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Arsenal role would be ‘dream’ for Henry Arsenal’s all-time top scorer Thierry Henry said it would be a “dream” to manage the club, whose season is threatening to unravel after their capitulation to Manchester City in the League Cup final. Arsene Wenger’s side crumbled 3-0 at Wembley on Sunday and languish 10 points off the top four in the Premier League, with the Europa League their only chance of silverware this season. Wenger is under contract at Arsenal until 2019 but a failure to qualify for the Uefa Champions League for a second straight year would ramp up pressure for him to step down. Asked on Sky Sports, after the game about whether replacing Wenger would appeal to him, Henry, who is also a member of Belgium’s coaching staff, said: “I still have a job to do with Belgium, but let’s see what’s going to happen. It will be a dream for me, but I’m still with Belgium. Interested? Yes, who wouldn’t be? But I can’t talk about that out of respect for the man that is in charge still and my job with Belgium. But who wouldn’t be interested?” ▷▷▷

Lukaku wants more ‘respect’ for his efforts Romelu Lukaku was the hero for Manchester United on Sunday with a goal and an assist, but he is not happy with how his work for the club he joined in the summer has been perceived. He has scored 13 Premier League goals since his summer move from Everton. That is 11 behind top scorer in the league at present, Tottenham’s Harry Kane. “You expect a bit more respect but it’s the situation we’re in,” Lukaku told United’s website after his first goal against a topsix side in seven games this season. “I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out people expect 20 goals from me. I have been doing it for 10 years straight so I think I’ve proved myself.” ▷▷▷ Uefa say no to Jersey’s hopes of membership The Channel island of Jersey failed in its bid to join Uefa yesterday when its application was rejected by the annual Congress of European soccer’s governing body. Jersey FA president Phil Austin told the Congress that football on the island of about 100,000 people was in danger of declining without international competition but members rejected the application after being told it would violate Uefa statutes. Jersey is a British Crown Dependency that sits outside the United Kingdom and the European Union. Members were told that Article 5 of the Uefa statutes limits membership to FAs that are based in a country “recognised as an independent state by the majority of members of the United Nations”.