Wenger may prefer to side-step the issue in his scheduled Press conference ahead of tomorrow’s Premiership game against Sunderland at Highbury.

Indeed, in the wake of Arsenal’s midweek Champions League victory against Sparta Prague, he insisted he would wait until next week’s international break to decide whether to follow through his threat of “action” against Mourinho.

However, the Football Assoiation and the League Managers’ Association have urged both bosses to call a truce, while there have been encouraging conversations at boardroom level.

Now it is up to Wenger to take the next step after Mourinho declared: “If he is ready to apologise from Highbury about quotes and quotes about Chelsea, then I’m ready to do the same.

“But of course it’s not a personal thing. The intention was not to hurt the man, the human being, of course not. I have respect for him as a human being as he’s a successful man and nobody has helped him to arrive where he’s arrived. As a manager too. It’s the same, he’s done very good things.

“But there have been too many quotes about Chelsea – some hard, like for example that one about the moral leadership, some funny, like when he said I’d only won one Premiership title. I cannot win two in one season!

“But it’s enough now – it’s good for him and good for me. I have problems to solve in my club as we lost a game and I want to do better and he has problems to solve in his club as they’re not doing as well as they need to do in the Premiership.

“It’s better for us and them to forget all this.”