Jack Wilshere: ‘He just said if you can get a contract elsewhere you can go’

The Arsenal midfielder is relishing a fresh chance with England seven months after Arsène Wenger realised his worst fearsIt was in early August, with the new Premier League season primed, when Arsène Wenger delivered the news Jack Wilshere dreaded. The midfielder had been working up a sweat on an exercise bike in the gym at Arsenal’s training ground when the manager ambled over and left the spin session stalled. “It was an honest conversation,” Wilshere recalls. &