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Meet Dragan Stojkovic: The man Wenger wanted as his Arsenal successor

Goal speaks to the 53-year-old Serbian who the Gunners boss previously identified as the man to fill his managerial shoes

Arsene Wenger has generally remained coy on who could eventually replace him as Arsenal manager but there is one man who the Frenchman did publicly state he would like to succeed him when he leaves the club.

"I would love Stojkovic to be my successor, there are a hundred reasons for that," Wenger told Serbian paper Vecernje Novosti in 2011. ''Our ideas are the same and we both strive for perfect football.