If Arsene Wenger is staying, it was odd time to announce that a decision had been made. The defeat at West Bromwich Albion, Arsenal’s fourth in five games in the Premier League, was their worst run since the days of Stewart Houston in 1995.
Yet if Wenger is leaving, it was equally bizarre to trail what will be, alongside the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson, the most-seismic departure in the era of Premier League. All that we know for sure is that Arsene knows.
They used to display that as a banner at the club. The phrase represented the seemingly mystical qualities the Frenchman had.