“Let’s not get lost in celebrating the end of his era”, he added.
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Rob Holding would be the man to make way with Hector Bellerin recalled at right-back while Sead Kolasinac could come in to give Nacho Monreal a rest ahead of the Madrid tie.
Seaman said he is in favour of the latter option, and singled out Ancelotti as his top choice. “I don’t know who created this expression but it has not a lot to do with football”.
Aside this, many have posited that Wenger’s penchant for spending less on players’ recruitment is equally one of his Achill heels.
“That did not betoken an Arsenal revival because the FA Cup is not what it once was”.
In spite of Arsenal’s struggles on the field in recent seasons, they remain the sixth richest club in the world, according to financial consultants Deloitte’s annual Football Money League.
“He’s reinvented the game and played some of the best football we have ever seen”. Whatever is being said, we have not done that. “We have to embark on a process, which we have not done”.
“But what he did was he brought in players like Vieira, Emmanuel Petit, Nicolas Anelka and along the years signed real quality players who were already on his regime, so the lads could see the effects”.
That season was also Arsenal’s final campaign at Highbury but the promise that moving to the 60,000-capacity Emirates would allow the club to compete financially with the biggest spenders in England and the continent failed to materialise. It was the right diet, and the lads took that on.
His previous job had been managing a club in Japan, an utterly exotic place in footballing terms.
The Frenchman announced on Friday that he will depart the club at the end of the season after two decades at the helm, winning three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups.
Former goalkeeper David Seaman said it was a “sad day”, while former midfielder Paul Merson called for the club’s stadium to be renamed after the Frenchman in his honour.
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Mourinho’s rivalry with Wenger dates from the younger manager’s arrival at Chelsea as a self-proclaimed “Special One” in 2004.
Arsenal fans have responded to the 29-year-old former Southampton star’s tweet. “This is a amusing one because I am not going to go that way again. Thank You So Much”, Iwobi said on Instagram. “That was a great night”.
“We’re not going to find a replacement”, he told a news conference.
Gazidis, though, claimed the wheels hadn’t been put in motion to appoint a successor until Wenger made his decision public.
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“I think it’s a great time for someone to come into the club; clearly they haven’t performed to the standard expected of them for a while so it would be a good opportunity for a new manager to start again with the team”.
