Arsenal boss Wenger says managing national team not on his agenda

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger admits managing a national team has never really interested him.

Wenger has already ruled himself out of the running for the England post.

"I have never really been tempted by the national team job because for me it is a completely different job.

"I was always under contract, I respected contracts in my life. I am a little bit in a marathon job inside the club and the national team job is a sprinter's job.

"Maybe I have not enough quick fibres, but I am more interested in a day-to-day basis job.

"(Being a national team manager) is completely different; it is more PR, more communication, there is less impact on the footballing side and less impact on building the team because if you have a good generation in the country then you can do well and if you don't you can do nothing. In a club you always have ways to build a team."

Wenger claimed he had "ruled myself out of many national team jobs" down the years, but has again been linked with taking over at the helm in France.

The Arsenal manager added: "In the future I don't know (whether I would ever manage a national team) because what I do now demands a lot of physical power and to be super fit physically, that might not always be the case."