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Wenger on transfers, Vardy, Giroud

Arsene Wenger’s future, speculation over Olivier Giroud, last summer’s interest in Jamie Vardy and this summer’s transfer plans.

All those issues and more came up at the manager’s press conference on Tuesday. Read on for some of the key quotes:

on if there’s an update on his future…
No.

on whether he knows when he will announce it…
No.

on whether his future depends on what happens in the rest of this season…
No. It’s a triple no.

on Marseille trying to sign Giroud…
I have had no approach from Marseille, and we want to keep Olivier Giroud at the club.

on whether he’s looking at transfer targets for next season…
Yes, of course.

on whether that is a clue about his own future…
No. I work until the last day of the season for the present and the future and the transfer targets are the future of the club and of course, it’s very important.

on transfer targets also being his future as well as the club’s future…
Well, that’s a bit secondary. What is important is the future of the club. Well tried.

on whether he regrets not signing Jamie Vardy…
Transfers, successful or not successful, are part of it. You accept you are in a job where you have to accept the decisions of the players and he made that decision, that I respect completely. After, you move forward and you look at something else.

on if the club could have done more to convince Vardy…
No. Honestly, no. I believe that we have done what we wanted to do.

on if the boss wanted to make him main striker…
It was one of the strikers we had [in our mind] but when you come to a big club you cannot guarantee that to anybody.

 

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