Arsene Wenger
French football manager.
We do not buy superstars. We make them.
Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don’t know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.
I want to go to the end of my job here. I built this team, I want to deliver with this team and I feel if I left I would have in some way betrayed my own beliefs. It is as simple as that. It was nothing to do with what Real Madrid has done. It was about Arsenal. I have a project here that I started three or four years ago and I want to reach the end of it. I could not leave this team at this stage of their development.
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.
In England, football is important for everybody.
We were considering him (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.
The background looks like a lot of red cards.
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
You weren't world class when Arsenal signed you.
I told you last week that the race was not over when the bookmakers stopped betting. Surprise, surprise, they have started taking money again.
I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.
I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.
They [Chelsea] are a financially doped club. They have enhancement of performances through financial resources which are unlimited. It puts pressure on the market that is not very healthy. They can go to Steven Gerrard or Rio Ferdinand and say ‘how much do you earn? We’ll give you twice as much’. I don’t know if there is anything we can do to stop it.
You forget what you wrote last September, October, November. You have a little bit of Alzheimer's.
I think the job he has done at Arsenal makes him without question their most successful manager, even above people like [Herbert] Chapman.
When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.
We need a player who will be a fox in the box and on the pitch. We need a player like Owen is for Liverpool.
I rate Wenger – he's a very polite, well-mannered man, not forceful, though but sometimes you have to be a bit of a ruthless bastard.