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Great 👍 interview!

He is one of the greatest managers in the 21st century!

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Thanks for doing the interview Ian - a pleasure to work with you as always!

Legends both of you ❤️

Legend !

You should of commented the day the vid dropped aha, you’d have the most liked comment, great vid though Ian your always great in everything I see you in.

Big love to the both of you ♥️♥️

It was 😉

Same here 😅

Same here! 😁

Same bro or that Arsenal had to name him arsene 🤣🤣🤣

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I’m a 20 year old Arsenal fan, and I absolutely agree with The fact that Wenger is one of the greatest managers ever do it. He revolutionise the game and he is the man that brought Arsenal to the heights that It reached. I have nothing but respect and admiration for Wenger. Furthermore, I agree that the fact that he took us to the Champions League places despite the teams he had his remarkable. But last few seasons Arsenal was slightly declining under Wenger. As certain teams got better and spent more and updated the tactics we kind of fell behind and a large portion of his fans including myself thought that he took this club as far as he could and that it was time for a change. But I did not agree with him being abused verbally out of the job by certain fans but that’s how it goes unfortunately, football fans get frustrated and they say words that they don’t mean. But no matter what managers we have in the future and the matter how successful they make us they will never be another Arsene Wenger. He needs his statue.

Your opinion does not count as a Sunderland fan. You mackem, we tackem

And I also want to make it clear that Arsenals decline was just on Wenger. So many things (owners) worked against him. But the fact that he got us Champions league places as much as he did is remarkable.

Agree. I properly started undestanding and loving the game watching Arsenal right after Henrys departure. along with the 08-09 barcelona squad i couldnt get football off my mind. know one couldnt tell me its not the greatest sport in the world.

What the hell is happening at Sunderland anyway? They are a big club with a great stadium and great support, and yet they're languishing down the divisions for years on end. Why? They should at the very least be one of the teams that has a few years in the Premiership and maybe goes down to the Championship occasionally, only to soon come back up again. They are surely the equal of the likes of Norwich or Fulham or, my team, Stoke City. Just wondering.

It's because he doesn't listen to Bruce Springsteen.

We should always call him boss..

I was going to make the same comment. No need anymore. But yeah, it sounds so sweet, respectful and real.

Everyone manager Wriighty has had, he refers to all of them as Boss or Gaffer. Wright is just old school

@@isaacjacobs3785 Not Bruce Rioch!

Agreed. Such a classy guy

Same here

I was a fan before he joined, but it was because of him that I came to love the club. I’ve lost a bit of interest since he left.

@@summerrr1 same, but Arteta has given me quite a boost)

@@JellyDonat a boost of no European football and our worst finish since moving to the Emirates??

That's what got me. How easily he remembers the tiniest details from years ago. I'm more than half his age and my memory is shite 🤣

He was more than a manager, he was also a father to all

Yaah and their price tags wow 🔥🔥

And he's 72. He's a fantastic person

I don't think the question about Kane was scripted and Wenger remembered that Kane was 9 years old at the Academy and left at 11. Unless that's the regular ages that kids move through the Academy, that's a crazy thing to know on the spot.

He introduced sports science to to english football

Man turned down real Madrid Juventus psg England France job and stayed loyal to arsenal what a legend

Respect back to liverpool from an arsenal fan ❤

He’s just copying Gary Neville from his interview with Ferguson

So forced

What do you expect him calling arsene dude?

Once a boss, always a boss!

Epitome

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Remember the time when, Pixie, now coach of Serbia national team said that he is the Best coach in the Word? They where in Japan at that time. I wonder wtf he is speaking for this anonimus?

That's mad I identify as a homeless penguin 🤣

Yeah, same here bro

The feeling is very mutual. From an Arsenal fan.

Same now with Roy Keane for me 🤣 (not Van nistelrooy though 🫣)

@@manuel_winde Never van Nistelrooy. But yeah, time goes on, so much water under the bridge now - I used to HATE United. I could still name most of their 11s through the 90s. They even had a devil on their badge - what greater symbol of evil. Now - you look back at how good it was. How good both teams were, and how well they were run. What a manager Ferguson was - incredible, frankly.. the best.. Miss that rivalry. Miss those big games. Tides turn though and there's a lot to look forward to. Come on you Arsenal!

yeah..me too missed the old rivalry keano & viera time

To be fair he bought those guys in

@@joeedward-few6040 yeah for sure he'd bought them, with limited piggybank only those are whom he could have bought. We've seen hazard, kante, and many likes slip off after initial grasp.

And Djourou, Bendtner, Yaya Sanogo Damn. Arsenal had so many duds and some very injury prone first teamers like Wheelchair, Rosicknote, Diaby, Van Persie and still be managed at least 4th somehow.

@@dragonbane44 yeah i even doubt diaby was inspiration for samuel l Jackson charachter in movie unbreakable. At least RVP and Rosicky are class stuffs he had in his limited warchest.

@@dinesh666ramdas such a shame about Diaby though. He definitely had the potential to be better than even Vieira. Imagine a Vieira+ running box to box, dictating the midfield like a boss. Thats what Diaby was capable of. Absolutely hate that Sunderland defender for breaking his ankles and robbing us.

French people

@@ben.futureprimitive Nah, nothing to do with that mate French people aren't classy as they seem to be

Wenger probably wears a suit as his pyjamas

Was kinda hoping he’d wear that iconic long blue coat. Remember when Rihanna was clocked wearing a similar coat coming out a hotel in the morning people were like ‘Wenger hittin that’ 😂

Looks like its covered in dandruff. Hardly professional. Probably part of a media day.

ohhh the battles.... great times.... United vs Arsenal...... it was all out war..... now i have nothing but respect for that MU side and fergie... back then i felt a little different LOL... great times

The most disrespected man in football

no one cares ur a united fan

He made them a formidable force for about 3 seasons and then whipping boys from them on

Same man

He ain't underrated though.

@@laishtondonba162 in my opinion he's not as valued as he should be.

It's probably because of the trophy drought arsenal had. I'll admit around 2013ish I was looking around the rest of the premier League thinking "why won't Wenger spend some money?". I regret it now but I was young at the time.

@@danjackson1016 …and it just goes to show how good he’s been as a manager, to keep the team afloat with whack players such as Sanogo and Bendtner to make sure that the club had the money to have the stadium project completed, out of pocket! He took a lot of flack on behalf of management because he clearly wasn’t the (only) one to decide on what should be done with the money! I’m sure if he was a manager with no vision he would have demanded money like the current crop of managers, just to buy players ready to win stuff outright, which honestly if you look at Man U and Barça now, you realize that these things are unsustainable! Man U spent over a Billion pounds on players, they’re getting worse and their stadium needs a lot of work!!!

@@vuyaninhlanzizibashise892 I know that now of course. Back then I was around 13 though and I didn't know how football worked behind the scenes. To be honest this season I'm looking at what Arteta has done and thinking he's trying to pick up where Wenger left off.

Class comment. Fair play mate

Sir Alex better 😂

@@adamdanish2430 as a United fan, now is not the time mate. Appreciate class when you see it.

Poetic bullshit

Not really I call the shopkeeper boss

Every player calls their former managers boss , gaffer etc. Nothing special here

You’re deconstructing one commonly used word into a paragraph about respect like it’s a fucking English exam. It’s just a nickname

Did you expect him to call him dude?

absolute clowns they are.

Majority of Emirates attendees then

Aftv

Bruv you remember the results right?

@@googleuser3361 shut up

Rivals or not. At the end of the day, we all just want to enjoy the beautiful game as is. Rivalries is just there for the fans to have things to banter about.

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As a chelsea fan, if i ever meet that club director ill buy him a pint, no hesitation 😂

That's true. Imagine if Ronaldinho accepted United in 2003, will Cristiano became Arsenal legend or a failure?? Nobody will ever know

@@mubienkvape Ik for a FACT that Ronaldinho will fail in United. He's got disciplinary problems, which is something SAF despise so much. Though it could change since Ronaldo was not a mature player much himself till SAF and boys like Giggs and Scholes literally had to bully him in the dressing room to make him live a healthier lifestyle. Ronaldo to Arsenal however, none would know. Would Wenger let him play the way he wants, or have him play lots of passes, just like the way Wenger wants. But yet again, Wenger always says things about letting players play with freedom, Ronaldo might have been the perfect piece to Arsenal winning the UCL in 2006.

Yep. The fastest person in the world is only the fastest person we *know* about.

@@mrplut0 well, he didn't seem to have disciplinary problems during seasons 2004-2007, you know those seasons when he was by MILES the best on the planet :D:D but yes, after his Barcelona glory days, it all went down-hill...... but every genius has "crazy mind" I guess...... that's how they differ from most of us

And a compulsive liar, yes.

@@patchh15 k Patrick

Couldn’t agree more! The 3 big legends. Not Pep not Klopp.

He is the professor

@@shahzadiraniWell Pep hasn’t been in the Prem that long compared to those three. Of course when talking just about the Prem it is Arsene and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Arsene Wenger has commented football matches on French TV and I loved listening to him because he talked only football. He explained what was going on on the pitch like a coach, a strategist, a teacher. It gave us to see the game in a completely different angle only football professionals can see, even people who didn't understand anything to football, everything became clear, he opened our perspectives and it was simply very interesting to listen. Made the game more interesting to watch. Unfortunately he didn't stay long but Lizarazu eventually took over and he has the same approach. Except that he explains from a football academy coach's perspective, not the big club's coach perspective. Which is also very interesting because he talks more about the football basics.

Yeah, and even so, having a stadium the size of the Emirates will only fit that much better when we are back on the top of world football.

They’d be better than where they are now with him still at the helm

It ended with overachievement vs wage bill. 3 FA cups in last five years and only 1 season outside of champs league is overachieving for the 5th highest wage bill

Didn't he end it with the FA Cup tho? If I'm remembering correctly which made Arsenal the leaders in FA Cup wins at the time? For the shit he had to put up with that's a good send off just unfortunately people and sky etc been disrespecting the FA Cup over the last decade or so.

It ended with toxic fans forcing out the greatest contributor the club we love ever had

Unfortunate you feel the need to validate your opinion by stating you're a Chelsea fan. As if you didn't. People would accuse you of being a delusional Arsenal fan. No one can dispute any of your points. Regardless of allegiance.

I’m a Chelsea fan too and I agree with you totally. That whole: ‘World Cup every two years’ thing though… no. Yuck!

He doesn't need your love, rent boy

Desk fan here, that's big of you to say

Arsenal fan here, I hate Chelsea. An exceptional Sunderland fc with Russian moneybags what a legendary tosser of the league smh

The invisible wall

Bravo sir.

Yeah, Arsene for Man Utd

if we didnt have fergie, wenger would have reigned supreme aloooooooot of years EDIT typo

He's a cheat

@@voetbal12 who’s a cheat and why please ?

because at that point he was a DM who was 5'7, soft spoken and had no outstanding technical skills

I wonder how Kante appreciates that person who used to take him to clubs to sign him, and how does that person feels when he sees the success Kante reached. From no one wants you to wining world cup and premiere league.

@@aladdinhassan1287...and Champions League.

@@aladdinhassan1287 kante and mahrez were picked up by the same scout at leicester, David Mills.

there are many similar stories to this in football and it really highlights the fact that one of the best pieces of advice you could give a young player is to not listen to negative opinions and keep trying. they are opinions at the end of the day and are often wrong.

Arsenal fans treated him like absolute shit at the end. Shameful.

He still calls Glen Hoddle Gaffer

every footballer will call their old manager boss/gaffer

It's because he doesn't listen to Bruce Springsteen.

We should all call him boss. He is a gooner forever!

True. And you could see Ian's face at times, the emotions were going to burst open

Good times, real battles !

Those kinds of rivalries don't exist anymore.

They still respected eachother no passion like that anymore

Best managerial Prem rivalry i ever witnessed in my lifetime!

Exactly. If Ferguson ever left Man United in those days, Wenger would be the instant choice I'd have to replace him. In fact, Arsenal often played more attractive football than Man United did, it's just the results/trophies between them both didn't reflect that.

He really has that Dad aura, firm but caring .. you can see Ian still feels like he is playing under him

nah he was bang average when you've had wrighty anelka henry rvp adebayor you don't just look at giroud with respect

@@ThaEzioAuditore It's relative. Wenger thought bringing in Lacazette would be an improvement on Giroud and he clearly wasn't. If anything he was a downgrade

Giroud is one of the most underrated footballers of all time.

@@ThaEzioAuditore Bang average??? Guess you never was at the games he made a difference and scored those goals when there was moments when we was not going to win. Derby match comes to mind, The team goal with Santi, Jack ect. Only plastic fans would think Giroud was "bang average"

Good striker nets at least 20 goals per season. Check stats of Giroud?

I don’t know what you said, but if it was that he should go - glad you regret it.

He needed to go and should have gone a bit sooner but we still love, respect and admire him. The connection with the fans and the club now is better than it’s ever been at the new stadium.

I’m not going to add to the likes, cos 49 is just perfect. If you know, you know. 😉

Same ! Brilliant interview !

@@lukeyg6573 SAME

Such a shame the fans turned against him, he was devoted to that club 100% .

And now there’s Man U who’s whole defence costs about £200M and can’t keep a clean sheet for their lives 😂

@@asianwarrior2193 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

5 million back then is the equivalent of 567.35 million today

@@wespicedmemes more like 8 million today

@@wespicedmemes are you ok

That's exactly why modern football is a circus. Players nowadays lost all respect to their peers, superiors and most of all to the fans. When you see 18 year old millionnaires threatening clubs and coaches and acting like drama queens, just because they had a couple of good seasons and have a couple million followers on social media. While at the time established legends would kill on the pitch just to earn the respect of the coach,of the fans. they played for the club, they fought for the club and they bled for the club. Look at United under Sir Alex, no player was above the club, Prime Beckham still has the scars to show for it. Now look at Pogba, almost at the end of his career, yearly episodes of drama, and despite all his skill, still no achievement

@@HMalem After watching “an audience with Arsene & David Dein”.it was interesting to see the former players calling him ‘boss’. He was a one off.

😂😂

Xhaka is the player arsenal hope to be Gilberto Silva. He usually has the most passes and touches in a match.

Fabinho is Gilbert Silva regen

@@kyoukaiten3834 you must be kidding me to compare gilberto silva with xhaka. Xhaka has no flow in his game, slow the game too much. Sure, his shooting technique is fantastic but that’s about it. There is not intensity in the pass when he touch.

I have rarely seen a French guy lose his accent.

Hahah good spot on that😅

It is an odd thing. I'm a Scotsman but I have lived in Germany for eleven years and when I speak German, I can't hear my accent. Sometimes people will parrot things that I say back to me but I don't hear it as I talk.

Not just the invincibles, that 08 team was also incredibly underrated. That year imo we played our best football, but unfortunately we didn’t win any silverware, so it isn’t talked about enough.

@@ayr.3702 Agreed mate. At least you were around for the good times! Arsenal was scary during the noughties.

Ronaldo plays softball I guess

@@ayr.3702 someone got injured right, who was it?

@@cutecatshorts3464 Eduardo, he was in the form of his life at the time.

Well said

Same as a Spurs fan. He changed the nature of the game when he arrived. Arsenal fans did him dirty at the end. I think he could have achieved more for them if he hadn't been so limited financially.

COYGGGGG❤

Garuntee you wanted him out like all the rest of the fans

@@riley9577 trust me😭😭

@@riley9577 100% they all wanted him out .All this bollox about how fantastic he was .They seem to forgotten the booing ,the banners ,the hiring of planes to fly banners . They ALL wanted him out . None of them were calling him a genius .

@@catomacro8325 it's football you muppet, everyone is entitled to criticism. He did great things but also made alot of errors, he's not perfect, and as fans we're entitled to voice our concerns, he was employed as a manager, he's not a God. Sooner or later his tenure would've come to an end, part of football, he was never going to be there forever. But over stayed as he ran out of ideas, and that's why fans voiced loudly, if you were an actual fan you understand this.

SAF continues to sip his coffee

Best, no. Top three, yes. I think SAF and Guardiola definitely beat him to it. Wenger is a class act though and so professional. From a city fan, always loved Arsene

Another Liverpool fan here mad respect to Arsene and SAF! They have shaped the modern English footfall.

and now the tables have turned lol. You Liverpool fans have waited long enough, its now your time to shine. P.S. leave some shining space for us as well ty

@@SC-lo4mp Guardiola doesn't come anywhere close to Alex or Arsene.

Everyone who played under Wenger call him "boss" till this day

It’d be awkward if he didn’t

I think it's stupid 😂

I thought it was named after a large assortment of weaponry. An arsenal If you will

Me too😂 I thought he established the club

Me too

Same 😂😂

Me too 😂

Brilliant work.... Thank you 😊

Absolute legend Thanks man🤍

🤝

Good man 🤝

You're the hero

Did u just call Vieira PV4? 🤣

It's so true, and vice versa. I loved the days when we had rivalry with United. Best Premier league era in my opinion.

@@dagrohl1979 and its back now

@@maxstappen1243 Hope so.

And when people criticise his tenure at the end I hope they remember that his worst period was still better than the two managers that immediately followed.

@@photon-9551 if they do crtiticise his end they they really were spoiled little brats.Like the boss once said when you're used to eating caviar it's hard to change to sausages but at least try to understand the landscape of football during his last few years at the club and they didn't.

@@photon-9551 love arsene but that’s such a stupid point. The following two managers had to takeover the club in a massive rebuilding job with a whole new direction, new tactics new philosophy and had to help them adjust in a post-wenger era which was very very difficult.

He's a legend Arsenal.fans became impatient with him But if they had just been humble and relied om him to get them closer to where they want to be.. the game would be changed

How old are you man?

Don’t feel sorry, Wenger got an incredible send off most managers could only dream of, he was far past his best and it showed in his last couple seasons. Feel sorry for Emery who the Arsenal “fans” abused after for finishing 2 points off 3rd, they’ve deserved what’s happened since.

Nice comment mate, as a Gooner I always felt the same way about Fowler. Mutual respect.

I will never forget Fowler telling the ref it wasnt a pen when seaman brought him down,early 90s l think....legend..

He had the best playmaker in Europe feeding him and the rest of the team the most perfect plays. He was a donkey at the worst time and blossomed into a wicked powerful striker.

Ozil fed him enough at Arsenal too.. He wasn't just consistent

Look at France and the World Cup

People forget about the emirates, arsenal always been a club with little debt, wenger practically built that ground with his own hands

He’s a good businessman, getting all his defense players under 5 millions pound

Absolutely 💯

@@andyroberts3675 I heard he built the stadium alone

Also if it wasn’t for Chelsea and cities crazy oil money injections we could’ve won more titles too poor Arsene couldn’t compete

Not to mention Giroud forgot how to score a goal for like 15 consecutive premier league games or so

You would of never of won the league anyway in 07/08.

I think Man U and Chelsea were a bit better than Arsenal in 2008 but of course they both went all the way to the CL final so it was a great opportunity for Arsenal to go for the league. Only finished 4 pts off in the end, and towards the end of the season as you say they missed a couple of players and won only 1 out of 8 games between February and April.

@@solbf2509 we were 12 points clear at one stage. Then Eduardo’s leg got snapped in half and we completely collapsed.

Yeah agree. I’d love to see the day when clubs stop brassing themselves off to big companies for money- just so we can pay for players to have 12 Ferraris.

I wish

You forgot Blackburn rovers

And Jose Mourinho too.

@@dominicclarke7875 Blackburn won in ‘95 but United had completely pulled away from them after that until Arsene came

You are a real football fan mate 👏

I'm a Shrewsbury fan

He carries an incredible gravitas; I can listen to him for hours.

Someone send this video to ole

I think its 2026

same here

He’s the exact reason we HAVE ended up like Everton. Could have stepped aside before the big decline, when it was still an attractive job to world class coaches. I love the guy believe me, but he had to go and took the piss by staying as long as he did. I really do understand how it looks from the other side of the fence but Wenger destroyed his own legacy. No individual is bigger than the club. Incredibly depressing settling for the same mediocre results year after year. Had to be a change, even if we risk doing worse which we obviously have. Wenger did not have the ambition to challenge for the league towards the end of his time as Arsenal manager in my opinion.

@@keenzoblock5782 You fool, so where is the ambition to win the league now.

@@spiderwebbmarketing Accepting top 4 every year, and getting knocked out of the champions league in the round of 16 or earlier EVERY YEAR is no less painful then finishing 8th my friend.

@@spiderwebbmarketing 6 or 7 years ago, Arsenal was an attractive job to managers like Klopp, Allegori etc etc. Wenger could have stepped aside, knowing he was no longer at the top of his game, but his ego meant that he overstayed his due instead of passing the torch to a more adequate manager. Now the Arsenal job is far from attractive for decent managers, and Wenger is partly to blame for that.

@@spiderwebbmarketing And for the record, the current squad feels far more ambitious then the lazy, greedy, unpassionate bastards we’ve had in the last 5 years. I take ESR over Ozil any day. Young players that care about the club and care about improving and getting results, instead of seeing our club as a comfortable retirement home. I’ve never been more behind the team.

Thats because he is an encyclopedia of football.

@@Nostradanus86 he’s a fossil. He got exposed as soon as good managers joined the league

@@callumbrown2148 and these managers are 🤔 Jurgen & Pep is it ?

@@callumbrown2148 klopp came in 2015 when we finished 2nd... pep the following year... surprise surprise the same year Xhaka & Mustafi are signed & given 100+ games to destruct the club. Wengers was just stubborn in his ways in his last 7 to 10 years at the club.

Same