Arsène Wenger has admitted he will sit down with the Arsenal board for a discussion in May, but denies it’s a review of his performance.

Wenger was speaking to beINSPORTS over the international break, and they asked him about comments he made at the Arsenal Annual General Meeting, which made it sound like he would be reviewed at the end of the season.

He said: “I said I sit down with the board at every end of season and see where we will go from there, so that’s not exactly the same,” reports the Daily Mail.

“Sometimes as well, you make a sentence and people turn it the way they would like to go. I have a two-year contract, I will always try to go to the end of my contract, but will always have the honesty to sit down with the board and to see where we go from there. That’s quite simple.”

So it seems that rather than a formal review process, the sit down is more of a discussion about how things are going, and whether the club as a whole need to do anything differently. It sounds pretty similar to a review to me, but perhaps with the emphasis slightly less on performance.

It does leave open the possibility that the manager could leave at the end of the season, which I don’t think is beyond the realms of imagination.

Arsenal were under a lot of pressure to make a decision in the summer, and some fans I’ve talked to believe that a two-year contract was the board’s way of buying themselves a year to identify a suitable replacement, whilst also avoiding a repeat of the final year protests in 2016/17.

Of course, there’s not much evidence to support this viewpoint, but it’s a possibility. Until next summer does come around, we probably won’t know much more, and it’ll likely depend largely on how things go between now and then.