Arsenal Manager ARSÈNE WENGER "rejected an offer" from former Arsenal player THIERRY HENRY to work for the club for free, according to Matt Law of the London TELEGRAPH. Henry "was offered a job" coaching Arsenal’s U18s by head of the academy ANDRIES JONKER, only to be "personally overruled" by Wenger. Having completed his A license coaching qualification while working with Arsenal’s kids, Henry "must now coach a team" to get his UEFA pro license and had hoped to do so with the Gunners’ U18s.
Wenger, though, informed Henry that a position with the U18s "must be a full-time role and cannot be combined with his work for Sky television." Henry responded by offering to work with U18 coach KWAME AMPADU "without collecting a wage." An offer to coach the club’s strikers "was also rejected by the 66-year-old." Sources around Arsenal believe Wenger "does not want anybody at the club’s London Colney training ground who may be prepared to challenge him or be seen as a possible threat to his position in the future" (TELEGRAPH, 7/12).
