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Alisher Usmanov: Wenger should decide his Arsenal successor via The Guardian

• Alisher Usmanov says he is ‘fully isolated’ from making decisions
• ‘I do not think that the coach alone is to be blamed’

Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov has admitted he is “fully isolated” from making decisions at the club and believes Arsène Wenger should have a part to play in appointing his successor when he finally decides to stand down as manager.

Uzbek-born Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has a 30.04% stake in Arsenal through his company Red and White Holdings having failed in a takeover attempt in 2011, when Stan Kroenke increased his controlling stake to 67%. In a rare interview last week which was published by Bloomberg on Monday, the 63-year-old hinted that he would prefer Wenger to stay in charge for now and suggested that the Frenchman was not entirely to blame for Arsenal’s recent struggles.

Related: The curious case of Farhad Moshiri, Alisher Usmanov and new money at Everton | David Conn

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