aren't players who are going to be out of contract employed until the 1st of july usually?

Assuming that Lyle is off anyway. Things are thankfully quiet so far on Charles going anywhere else... We need him for Captain duties next season.

Diddy yes to be honest footballers are lucky. I can't imagine any scenario where I or someone in a normal job could get a job offer and then bugger off for 5 weeks before deciding. I think after a short time we would find the job is no longer on offer!

Hash was wondering as obviously it allows us to know what money we have and what positions will need to be filled and better early then later when it comes to being first to a new player.

Diddy I'm guessing they are on holiday at the moment. I remember one season Luke Moore didn't sign his extension until pre season training. So could be soon, could be not for a few weeks.

How long do players who have been offered a new contract have to make their decision? Any news on any of our present players who have signed extensions?

That was his remit yes

Blimey - did Terry Brown really say that (as above)? He really delivered on his goals, didn't he?

I think it was Rioch who was there before Wenger and sigbed Bergkamp etc. Basically signed the spine of the team (apart from Viera). Wenger has been a good manager for Arsenal but should have left about 3 seasons ago.

The defence was decent and Bergkamp was already there before Wenger arrived

hadn't George graham already set the foundations for wengers early success too?

Clearly Wenger did more than ok in the first decade. It’s extraordinary how tone doesn’t translate on here.

It wasn't a two horse race in the Roman A era at Chelsea which Wengers limited success dovetails with . He didn't do brilliantly by any measure in the last decade but how many trophies did they win I the 22 years before he was manager ?

Cheshire glad I'm not the only one who thinks that, 3 titles when for large chunks of that time it was a 2 horse race.

I think emery probably has more of a chance at arsenal than moyes did at man utd. Ferguson was a legendary manager, and was always going to difficult to replace, thats where liverpool used to get it right, by promoting within. Emery goes to a club that has gone over 10 years without a title, and like gerard at rangers, just needs to close the gap to the top to look good,

Dun cow - that spell was awesome, but 3 titles for a club like arsenal in 22 years doesnt warrant legendary status in my book. If you took his record from 96 to 05, then yes, 3 league titles, 4 cups (2 doubles, and the invincibles), that is legendary, but just 3 fa cups for arsenal in the last 13 years? Not good enough enough to warrant that status

Two doubles and the invincibles season, and giving the gift of Thierry Henry to English football, is more than ‘did ok’, I’d say! Emery’s achievements lie more with what he did with sevilla and the three consecutive uefa cups rather than his stint with PSG - they could have done worse

Wenger was a bizarre choice and he did ok in the first decade. Agree that Emery likely to fail...

Bizarre choice for Arsenal really appointing someone based on being successful at a club with massively more resources than anyone else in its league - might as well have appointed Brendan Rogers for wininng ..... with Celtic. It may all work out but it does seem a bit of an odd choice - not our problem of course.

Kyle - "Moyes" as in sacked in less than a season?

TBH, I saw the 'Ricky aims..' linky above and thought we were announcing the signing of Ricky Holmes...

I think Arsenals choice has David moyes at Man U written all over him

Precisely because there's no reason to go there Airsy . Clicks are money

FFS even Oxford have a 3 game tour of Ireland, why are all our friendlies so dull???

May well be me, but how come we go three or four days when we are actually playing with 2/3 of fuckall updates on the OS; but as soon as the season finishes we look to fill it up with allsorts of nothing related to what's going on (when there's actually nothing going on)?