It is understood the new £8million-a-year deal has already been agreed and Arsenal plan to announce it this week.
MirrorSport revealed on April 23 that Wenger had finally decided to sign - and that he will get a transfer kitty to strengthen the squad this summer.
But the FA Cup success has made it a lot easier for them to announce with fans happy that they have reached the top four and won their first trophy in nine years.
The FA Cup hero says the Gunners have already proved they can be contenders – and winning a first trophy in nine years will boost confidence even more.
"Now we’ve finally won something, hopefully it will push us on and we’ll win a lot more things," the Welshman insisted.
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He will be given the biggest transfer budget in Arsenal history to help him win the Premier League title for the first time since 2004.
Bayern Munich’s Mario Mandzukic and Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema are among the Frenchman's top striker targets.
Bayer Leverkusen’s Lars Bender and Southampton’s Morgan Schneiderlin are midfielders who have been watched extensively by the Gunners scouts, while Toulouse’s Serge Aurier, Southampton’s Calum Chambers and Manchester City’s Micah Richards are right-back options should Bacary Sagna depart.
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Pastures new: Could Milner make the move to north London?
The Gunners are also being linked with Manchester City midfielder James Milner.
According to the Metro, the England man could be tempted to leave the Etihad in search of regular football, and Arsenal could be an option.
Everton and Spurs are the other clubs reportedly in the running for Milner's signature.
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has lost one of his sons in a car crash. Hamza El-Rufai died Tuesday morning in Abuja. The former Minister and Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, broke the news on his faceboook page today. El-Rufai wrote: “From Allah, we came and to Him we shall return. Please join our family in praying for the repose of the soul of my son, Hamza El-Rufai who died in a motor accident in Abuja.” See more photo below:
The remains of the female politicians, who died in a ghastly auto accident have been laid to rest at the Bayelsa State cemetery, Azikoro in Yenagoa, the state capital. President Goodluck Jonathan his wife, Dame Patience and the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson as well as wives of the Anambra and Ekiti State Governors joined other sympathizers at a special memorial service in honour of the deceased women at the Dr. Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, in Yenagoa.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that he did not join the All Progressive Congress (APC) so as to run for the Presidency in 2015, but to nurture the party and ensure that good governance is entrenched in Nigeria come 2015. Atiku who spoke in an interview with the BBC Hausa service, monitored in Kaduna on Monday, maintained that if it were because of a presidential ambition, he had clear chances of occupying the number one seat when he was in office with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, or even recently when he was in the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN ). He said he let that go in the interest of the nation. Atiku vowed that he would never return to the PDP, saying that from all indications, the party would no longer be what it used to be.
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