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Arsene Wenger "positive" Jack Wilshere will stay at Arsenal

By Daniel Lewis, Senior Reporter | 09 February 2018

Arsene Wenger insists that he is confident Jack Wilshere will remain at Arsenal come next season, while also revealing that contract talks are ongoing with Aaron Ramsey.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed that contract talks with midfielders Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey remain ongoing.

Wilshere is now into the final five months of his existing deal at the Emirates Stadium, while Ramsey still has more than a season to run on his.

The Gunners are keen to avoid a repeat of last month when losing Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United, albeit with Henrikh Mkhitaryan arriving as part of the swap deal to soften the blow, and Wenger is confident of an agreement being reached with both players.

"We try to make progress, as I told you that many times for [Mesut] Ozil," he told reporters at his weekly press conference. "You never believed me! I'm positive because I want [Wilshere] to stay. I do the maximum I can to make him happy.

"Aaron is a little bit different because he is less time-constraints than with Jack. With Jack it is now. With Aaron, if we lose two weeks or three weeks, it doesn't matter much. I want him to stay as well, if he starts to score hat-tricks."

Liverpool were recently tipped to make a move for Wilshere at the end of the season should he fail to agree fresh terms in North London.