Football: Wenger can be Arsenal chairman, says current chief
Posted: 18 October 2007 2310 hrs
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Arsene Wenger
LONDON : Arsene Wenger would make an ideal chairman for Arsenal when he finally decides to call a day on his coaching career, according to the current incumbent Peter Hill-Wood.
The French manager has been in the Arsenal hot seat since the end of 1996, winning three titles in that period, reaching a Champions League final and landing four FA Cups.
He has also nurtured a swashbuckling young team of talented players who are currently wowing the Premier League with their attractive attacking football.
And the 71-year-old Hill-Wood, who heads a board featuring five directors over the age of 60, believes Wenger would make an excellent future appointment.
"None of us are getting any younger," Hill-Wood told the Financial Times. "Arsene would make an excellent chairman one day, but we haven't discussed anything specifically."
Hill-Wood's comments come on a big day for the Arsenal board, with minority shareholders set to get their chance to put their questions to directors at the annual general meeting in the face of speculation that the club could be the subject of a takeover.
It is understood that two significant stakeholders, American Stan Kroenke and Russian Alisher Usmanov, who have both been linked with takeover bids in the last year, are likely to be represented rather than appear in person.
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