Wenger has made mind up on future

ARSENE WENGER has made a decision on his Arsenal future and has promised to make it public shortly.

Wenger, whose side were beaten 3-1 at West Brom yesterday, says he is yet to inform Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, but, having now revealed that the decision has been made, there will be intense pressure on the club to make a statement in the coming days – though the manager insisted that there would not be an announcement during the international break.

Wenger made the revelation after another awful performance at the Hawthorns, Arsenal’s fourth defeat in five Premier League games — their worst run since Wenger took over in 1996.

A number of fans displayed ‘Wenger Out’ banners and chanted ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ when Alexis Sanchez was substituted, though Wenger later revealed he was injured. And there was a farcical situation of two planes trailing banners, one demanding Wenger leave and the other in support of him.

Arsenal will slip to sixth if Manchester United win today at Middlesbrough, with Wenger admitting they face a battle to qualify for the Champions League

He said: ‘Don’t worry, I know what I will do in my future. You will soon know. Very soon. You will see. I know what I do.

‘Today, I don’t necessarily worry about that. We are in a unique bad patch that we never had in 20 years, we lose game after game at the moment and for me that is much more important than my future.’

Arsenal sources have grown more confident that Wenger will stay in the past two weeks and sign a new two-year deal, though those at the club still consider it to be ‘50-50’ whether he stays or goes.

His assistant of 23 years, however, Boro Primorac, who worked with him at Nagoya Grampus in Japan and for all of his 21 years at Arsenal, insists he will not walk away.

‘Wenger isn’t considering leaving Arsenal,’ Primorac told a Croatian newspaper yesterday.