Arsene Wenger has announced that he will be leaving Arsenal at the end of the season, the club he's been at for 22 years. It's been a long time coming, and still the news has come as a shock to most football supporters across the globe.
Of course, now, the question is 'who replaces the seemingly irreplaceable boss'? We at SPORTbible ran a poll of who you would like to see take over the managerial reigns at the club and the findings showed that most Gooner fans wanted their former captain and current New York City FC manager Patrick Vieira.
Coming in second was revered boss Carlo Ancelotti, followed by the club's all-time leading goal scorer Thierry Henry.
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But former Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman thinks Arsenal need to take a more pragmatic approach.
"I think a lot of the fans would like to see Thierry [Henry] and Patrick [Vieira] to do it together," he said on Sky Sports. "That would be fairy-tale stuff.
"But for me, it's a job that needs experience. For Patrick and Thierry, it might be a little bit too big for them at this moment. Experience is key."
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Seaman went on to say that his personal choice to replace Wenger would be Ancelotti, the former Bayern Munich manager.
"Ideally for me, a very experienced manager with a lot of stature," he said. "Someone like Ancelotti. He's been at big clubs before, he knows what he wants from his team and he'll know what sort of players he wants as well.
"So for me, you need someone with that sort of stature to go into Arsenal and say: 'Right, I want X, Y, and Z, otherwise I'm not coming,'" Seaman said.
Ancelotti would be a popular pick among Gunner fans, not least because he's won three Champions League titles (that's one more than Sir Alex Ferguson, folks), but the attention surely now will turn to giving Wenger the send-off he deserves.
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