Arsene Wenger plans move into international management when he leaves Arsenal

Arsene Wenger has hinted he could move into international management once he finishes his career at Arsenal.

The 68-year-old has 18 months left on his contract at Emirates Stadium and has previously been linked with the England job on several occasions.

It is understood that the Football Association sounded Wenger out over his availability after Roy Hodgson resigned in the wake of England's exit at Euro 2016 but the Frenchman chose to stay in club football.

Paris Saint Germain was widely expected to be his preferred destination should he continue in management when eventually leaving the Gunners but when asked about the possibility of a national team job, he told beIN SPORTS: "Maybe, yes I will do it at some stage but until now I like to be involved every day in the life of a club. The real test is there. Four or five weeks [in a tournament] is a different experience, it is more concentrated.

"But I believe the real experience to manage a team is on a daily basis. I will not always have the physical strengths to do that so maybe I will move into that."

Sir Alex Ferguson gradually began to scale back his personal involvement in training towards the end of his 26 years in charge of Manchester United but Wenger still takes sessions and is a regular participant in staff matches at London Colney.

"I haven't decided but it is a fact that my life is linked with football," he said. "In what way, will be linked with my physical state.

"But until the end of my life, I will be in football. I don't know in what kind of...as a director, as a manager. As long as possible as a manager but one day that will stop. But I will stay in football, of course."

When it was suggested to him he could be on the bench at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Wenger joked: "Maybe. You never know. Maybe with you on my side. But not interviewing me during the game but as an adviser."

Wenger told Standard Sport after last month's Annual General Meeting that his position at Arsenal is likely to be reviewed at the end of the season with the team's performances taken into account.