Arsene Going Nowhere, Says PHW

By Our Correspondent
for Arsenal New Today

Published: May 19, 2009

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Following recent reports that Real Madrid were looking to take Arsene Wenger to Santiago Bernabeu and Wenger having described Madrid presidential hopeful Florentino Perez’s project as ‘interesting,’ Arsenal Chairman Peter Hill-Wood was quick to allay fears of Arsenal faithfuls yesterday. Hill-Wood said that Wenger was under contract till 2011 and he was sure that the Frenchman would honour his contract. Hill-Wood also commented on the recent shareholders’ meeting where some of the shareholders criticised Wenger for his policies. According to him, the behaviour of some the shareholders was shameful, but added that it wouldn’t lead to the departure of Wenger. He said, “I am not concerned about it. Arsene is here and under contract (until 2011), and I am sure that is how it is going to remain. I think he is a big enough man to accept that a few people are not prepared to be reasonable. I think we all have to accept criticism, but you expect it to be reasonably constructive, rather than destructive.”

Commenting on the events of the shareholder’s meeting, he said,”Frankly, some of the questions were quite disgraceful. There you have the most successful manager in our history and two or three of the shareholders made the most negative and somewhat hostile and sarcastic comments, which I think were completely out of order. I was very upset by the questions, I have to say. We, and he, kindly agreed to have this meeting and whether we have another one is a moot point. Arsene was very diplomatic and honest in his answers and deserves great credit for that. But I wouldn’t have been anything like as polite if they had asked me.”

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