Succession planning

I have watched with interest while the long time manager at Arsenal Football Club has finally, at the grand old age of 68, cranked himself to announce his retirement at the end of the current season.

No doubt there will be problems, as there were when the long time manager at Manchester United finally chucked it in.

I associate to the mess you get when long serving dictators in banana republics start to lose their grip. But maybe, given the huge sums of money involved and the business background of most of the owners, modern succession planning will start to move in. Maybe rules about five year contracts, renewable once, after the fashion of presidents in the US.

Will we ever get to know what Wenger does in his retirement? Will he manage the transition from a life which has been devoted to football, obsessed with football? Will he take up water colour painting on the quiet, in the way of at least one tough-guy film actor from California? Or translating Zola, like the journalist in 'Ink' who wanted a break at weekends from the rough trade?

PS: perhaps not Zola, given that Wenger is French. But having lived in England for a long time, he could have a stab at George Eliot or Joseph Conrad.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/ink.html.