Piers Morgan has claimed on Twitter that he was told “on good authority” that Pep Guardiola wanted to manage Arsenal.
The celebrity Gunners fan reported on the social media site during Arsenal’s 3-1 Premier League defeat to Manchester City on Sunday that Guardiola had been keen to take over at Emirates Stadium with club legend Thierry Henry as his number two.
Morgan claimed on his personal Twitter account that Arsene Wenger “refused to go”, which meant that the managerial status quo remained.
REMINDER: I was told on good authority that Guardiola wanted to come to Arsenal with Thierry Henry as his No2 – but Wenger refused to go.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 5, 2017
Wenger, who recently celebrated 21 years as Arsenal, signed a new two-year contract in May that keeps him at the club until the summer of 2019.
But his side appeared a long way behind City on Sunday as they were demolished 3-1 by the team that has taken 31 points from 11 league matches to move eight points clear of second-placed Manchester United, who are away to Chelsea later on Sunday.
Guardiola is in his second season at City after being appointed in the summer of 2016.
OPINION
Arsenal fans have been a dissatisfied bunch for a long time and Morgan’s revelation that Guardiola wanted the job Wenger refuses to give up will send many of their followers into meltdown. The Spaniard is building a brilliant team at City and Gunners supporters could only look on enviously as their side were given a football lesson on Sunday. The demanding coach is energetic, passionate, brilliant and tactically on a completely different level to Wenger, who looks a relic by comparison. There is no way Arsenal will win the league this season. There appears no way City won’t emerge triumphant.