No matter how desperately Arsenal fans want to hear about the future of their club, it’s looking increasingly likely that an announcement regarding Arsene Wenger’s future won’t be made either way until the end of the season and here’s why.

3Mid-season upheaval

ST ALBANS, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 02: Arsenal manager Arseen Wenger with Henrikh Mkhitaryan during a training session at London Colney on February 2, 2018 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Arsene Wenger;Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Logically, sacking a manager at this stage in the season doesn’t really make sense. Arsenal aren’t getting relegated and they still have a chance at the Europa League.

With so little time left of the 2017/18 season, it just doesn’t make sense to suddenly ask Wenger to step down, especially off the back of a couple of really positive results. It doesn’t send a great message to the players, since morale is probably comparatively high at the moment, and considering how flighty they are these days, that wouldn’t be good.

Beating Milan 2-0 and then having your manager get sacked would probably be a little confusing.

Plus, who would take over? Steve Bould? Can we honestly say that Bould would do a better job during the rest of the season than Wenger?

Arsenal can’t suddenly bring in a new manager who already has their own club, since they would be disrupting two teams.

The Arsenal players would be disrupted because Arsene Wenger leaving the club after 22 years would be a massive change accompanied by media circus. And they would have to suddenly change the way they play in order to fit in with a new coach.

While you can understand teams that are fighting relegation suddenly bringing in someone new at this stage, they’re desperately trying to stay in the Premier League – it can only get better if they recruit a new manager. Even if they still get relegated, the board have made a change.

But Arsenal aren’t in that position. We do need change but we’re not fighting for our lives.

If Arsenal were out of the Europa League, perhaps I would understand sacking him now, since there’s nothing left for Wenger to fight for, but we’re still very much in that competition.