Clrnc wrote:

Mirth wrote:

He never flat out refuses anything. This is what he said in the summer

Pretty sure he always refused to even entertain the suggestion of an England role because he said it should be an English managing it.

And he's said that again:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/30/Arsene-wenger-perfect-england-manager-martin-glenn

Wenger, meanwhile, talking before Glenn on Friday, had seemed to distance himself from the position, when asked whether he still believes that the FA should steer clear of hiring a foreigner.

“I know God Save the Queen,” he said. “But I still think that the priority is for an Englishman to manage England. Because it looked always a bit bizarre if I manage England and play against France. I cannot sing the French national anthem and not the English one. It looks strange.”

Wenger was asked if he feels English rather than French these days. “I think a big part when I come back to London, I come back to home,” he said. “I’m not English, I am French. I feel French as well. But of course you do not spend 20 years in a country without identifying or getting used to some values or behaviours of the local culture.

“I do not want to give you some fruit for speculation. I am completely committed on the immediate. The priority is this club and what we want to achieve together until the end of the season.”

When Wenger says it should an English man what I hear is "I'd rather take the France job".

Me too.