Arsene Wenger says he would have signed every player at Arsenal to a 20-year deal if contract length impacted form. Arsene Wenger believes that players running down their contracts will become normal due to the rise in transfer fees. The humble manager's press conference has been one of the central breeding grounds of misdirection in sport and, on Sunday, that of Arsene Wenger featured a line that did not so much stretch credulity, but tear it completely in two. Discussing the scenario in which Arsenal's two best players, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, have been allowed to enter the final year of their contracts, Wenger claimed it was "an ideal situation" for the club. That...
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