IAN WRIGHT has admitted he would love to go back and help crisis club Arsenal – but reckons Arsene Wenger would not have him.
The Gunners have gone into meltdown after their shambolic 3-0 defeat away from home against Crystal Palace that saw fans turn on the boss and his players.
There have been calls for Wenger to step down and even a shake-up of the backroom staff but Gunners legend Wrighty believes he will not take on anyone who disagrees with him.
Wrighty said: “If Arsenal asked me to go there in any capacity, to do ANYTHING, I would go there.
“At the end of the day, he’s got people around him that he loves.
“Gilles Grimandi, people like Robert Pires. Those people aren’t going to front him up.
“Martin Keown is the only one that’s fronted him in the last couple of years and he got him out.
“Told Martin to shut up, that he talks too much.
“No-one around Arsene Wenger can front him up and say ‘you’re wrong.’”
Wenger is under mounting pressure to end his 21-year reign at the Emirates as the Gunners title chances ended and they look set to miss out of the top four.
But former England striker Wrighty is worried that Wenger has too much power at the club as there are no ‘football people’ on the board.
Wrighty added: “Gazidis seems to be feeding the press with certain things.
“What worries me is that when you look at the whole board, and everybody that’s involved their upstairs, there are no football people there.
“Arsene Wenger is the only football person there and it is worrying and I think that’s why he has held onto his job for as long as he has.
“There are no football people there that can pull him up and say ‘what is going on’ and why this shouldn’t be happening, and why someone like David Dean has not been brought back.
“But they needed someone like that, simply because they look petrified to get rid of him because if he goes, what the hell is going to happen?
“Who is the football person to appoint the new manager? They’re actually saying he will have a say in the next manager.
“It’s embarrassing what is going on up there at the moment.”
[TheSun]
