Arsene Wenger ideally would like to manage at least four more seasons and would prefer to do so with Arsenal.

Wenger's 20-year reign at the club reached a crisis point on Wednesday with the 5-1 loss at Bayern Munich.

Wenger seems wedded to football management, for better or for worse. Wenger compared his current state to the final years of Alex Ferguson with Manchester United.

By contrast, there is still nowhere Wenger would rather be than on the training ground or in the dugout. “Ferguson has some other interests in life and he was older [when he retired] than I am today,” said Wenger. “He was four years older. He retired at 71 and I’m 67.”

Asked whether that meant he planned to carry on for another four years, Wenger replied: “Maybe more, maybe less, I don’t know. Everybody is different. I do not want to take anything away from Ferguson, he was an absolutely unbelievable manager, but he had enough. He had enough. And I’m not at that stage.”