Jack Wilshere to leave Arsenal after agreeing 'exciting' Norwich move

Wilshere has been Arsenal Under-18s caput manager since 2022 but the 32-year-old volition determination into a first-team presumption moving nether Norwich brag Johannes Hoff Thorup.

Norwich person agreed a compensation bundle with Arsenal and Wilshere is owed to commencement enactment astatine the Championship nine connected Thursday.

Wilshere feels the determination should beforehand his coaching career.

Norwich play Preston connected Tuesday, person a time disconnected connected Wednesday and Wilshere volition commencement erstwhile the players are backmost successful connected Thursday.

Wilshere has been astatine the Norwich grooming crushed and met with Thorup and his unit a fewer times.

He is excited by the determination and talks progressed good betwixt the clubs acknowledgment to Norwich sporting manager Ben Knapper, who utilized to enactment astatine Arsenal.

Wilshere started his relation with Arsenal Under-18s erstwhile helium retired from playing aged 30 and led the Gunners to the FA Youth Cup Final successful his archetypal play successful charge.

Norwich brag Thorup hopes the assignment of Wilshere volition assistance make much "interest" and "excitement" astir the club.

Asked astir radical of Wilshere's calibre being linked, Thorup told BBC Radio Norfolk: "We person to marque definite we person radical successful the gathering that would beryllium absorbing for different clubs."

He continued: "We are astir to physique thing special, and an situation and a civilization and mode of playing that is exciting, truthful radical privation to beryllium here.

"And radical from extracurricular look astatine the radical present and that's a bully transportation to person due to the fact that it creates immoderate involvement and it creates immoderate excitement and that's what we want."

Wilshere held talks with MLS nine Colorado Rapids astir becoming their caput manager past October but yet stayed astatine Arsenal.

Arsenal are 11th successful the Premier League Under-18s array with 9 points from their archetypal six games of the season. Their adjacent lucifer is coincidentally distant astatine Norwich connected Saturday.

Norwich’s archetypal squad are seventh successful the Championship and targeting promotion.