Jack Wilshere Questions Arsene Wenger over Arsenal Positioning, Talks England

Jack Wilshere has questioned Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s decision to play him out on the flank recently when he is “not a wide man,” hinting at a lack of faith from the Gunners boss to utilise him in the middle of the park.

The Englishman is used as a central midfielder by national team coach Roy Hodgson, and he is likely to be deployed in the Three Lions’ engine room at the summer’s Euro 2016 despite a lack of recent playing time.

In his first start of the season for Arsenal on the final day of the 2015-16 Premier League term against Aston Villa, Wenger started Wilshere on the right wing, a position the 24-year-old said he is less comfortable in, per Jack Gaughan in the Daily Mail:

“With Arsenal I’ve been playing out wide, which is not me. I’m not a wide man, but Roy seems to have faith in me in the middle, so I’m happy with that.”

As Gaughan noted in his report, Wilshere has been regularly sidelined recently through injury and has appeared only 12 times for club and country since November 2014.

As a result, many questioned his inclusion in Hodgson’s provisional 26-man squad for the Euros—and highly …

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