Ronald koeman Arsenal

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman is reportedly ready to snub Everton to wait for the Arsenal job in a year’s time.

The Dutch tactician, who has impressed greatly in his time at the St Mary’s Stadium, feels he could be in with a chance of landing a bigger job than the one at Goodison Park.

The Dutchman has been linked with the vacant Everton post after the Toffees sacked Roberto Martinez last week.

But the Mirror claim he will snub Everton’s advances in the hope of receiving an offer from a bigger club next summer.

The news will come as a boost to Southampton, who are due to hold talks with the 53-year-old this week. The Saints remain hopeful he will sign an extension to his current deal, which currently has just 12 months left to run.

Arsenal are poised to offer Arsene Wenger a two-year extension to his present contract in the hope of tying him to the club until 2019 - a move that will cause huge controversy at the club.

According to The Times, Stan Kroenke, Arsenal's majority shareholder, "has prepared a new deal... that the club will urge Wenger to sign promptly if they make a strong start to the next campaign".


The prospect of another three years of Wenger will fill many Arsenal
supporters with dread.
It's 12 years since Arsenal won the league title, and ten years since they reached the final of the Champions League. In the subsequent decade all the Gunners have had to cheer are two FA Cup victories. Yet there remains a hardcore of supporters who still put their trust in the Frenchman, and the Times reports that Wenger was "hugely encouraged by the backing that he received" last month at the Emirates
when a fans' protest at his reign was drowned out by other supporters chanting his name.

During the course of the season koeman was regarded within the Arsenal boardroom as the eventual replacement for football’s longest-serving manager. Koeman, whose tactical shrewdness and
football philosophy fit the Arsenal bill.

Koeman is willing to discuss his future with chairman Ralph Krueger this summer, he has never hidden his ambitions to manage a Champions League club again.