Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

WENGER: FUTURE IS EUROPEAN

- BY JOHN CROSS

ARSENE WENGER will leave English football for good on Sunday – and claims the game will never be the same again.

Wenger, 68, takes charge of his last game with Arsenal but also believes the Premier League will soon be overtaken by a European Super League.

Gunners boss Wenger (above) believes domestic games will be played in midweek and European clashes will take centre stage at weekends with football undergoing a huge revolution.

Wenger said: “The Premier League has become a world-wide championsh­ip. The next evolution? Maybe I will see you in a few years and you will certainly have a European league over the weekends. A domestic league will certainly play Tuesday/ Wednesday.

“I think that is the next step we will see. It will happen and it will be soon.

“It will be soon because it is a way for foreign clubs to fight against the Premier League.

“The Champions League doesn’t sell well any more. Look at the audiences there.

“But if you have Real v Barca, or Real v Arsenal, or Manchester United v Bayern Munich every week the audiences will be good.

“It is inevitable. Why? First of all, to share money between the big clubs and small clubs will become a problem.

“Why? Because the big clubs will say that if two smaller clubs are playing each other nobody wants to watch it. People want to watch quality.”

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