I just wanted to say happy birthday to Arsenal’s greatest ever manager, Arsene Wenger, and remind you all of this answer he gave to a question in 2020:
What one piece of advice would you give [current Arsenal manager] Mikel Arteta?
Stephen, France
“To continue to have a grip on the team, as he has at the moment. And to go to the end of his beliefs. I think there is a good team spirit and they have a good chance to do well. I believe it will not be very difficult to improve on the number of points they got last season. But I’m convinced Arsenal can be in the top four, if not more. Why not more? They can be the surprise package for me this year: they bought well, they strengthened the defence well. And they kept the players who were already there. In my last year I bought [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang, they kept him. They have every ingredient and no real weakness.”
As folks often say “Arsene knows.”
Never in doubt!…
COYGs.
Funny he mention aubameyang, replace him in the quote with Granit and he’d be nostrodamus!
But fundamentally, other than a great manager what I love about him is the integrity!
“And to go to the end of his beliefs.” What a human what a manager.
It’s funny how he almost seems like a mentor figure to me, from all the years of reading about his quotes etc.