Overview

• Wilshere led Arsenal’s under-18s to the 2022-23 FA Youth Cup final in his first season as head coach.
• He departed Arsenal in October 2024 to join Norwich City’s first-team staff and served as interim manager for two matches in April.
• Sources including Team News and Ticks on Patreon say a deal is not finalized but is expected to be completed soon.
• The under-21 role opened when Mehmet Ali left to join Keith Andrews’s backroom staff at Brentford.
• His return would mark a homecoming to his boyhood club and strengthen Arsenal’s youth development pipeline.