Arsene Wenger is confident new Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta will extend his contract as he enters the final year of his current deal.
The Spaniard replaced Thomas Vermaelen as skipper after the Belgian became the fifth captain in nine years to be sold by Arsenal.
With less than 12 months to run on his current deal at the Emirates Stadium, Arteta has been linked with a move to Athletic Bilbao.
Wenger s policy of offering just one-year extensions to players over the age of 30 has previously seen several stars leave, but the Frenchman is sure his current captain will not join that list.
He said: You know the policy, nobody accepts it. But even [players] at 75 you ideally want to sign for one more year!
He is a strong personality, Mikel Arteta. I don…
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Having spent three torturous years trying to replace Ferguson the David Moyes experiment failed miserably and the idiosyncratic Louis van Gaal proved to be another embarrassing flop Manchester United are expected to this week appoint the man who arguably most resembles the obdurate Scot.
How influential Ferguson has been in United s pursuit of Mourinho may never be disclosed, but, in choosing the 53-year-old, United appear to have sought Fergie 2.0
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