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When you give success to stupid people

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Speaking to L’Equipe last week, Arsene Wenger admitted that the loss of key players early on this season may have changed his view on his long term future at the club:

‘No. For me we’re now talking short term, it’s obvious. For the first time I lost young players, who were reaching maturity. I suffered. It’s painful to lose key men you have invested a lot in.’

He went onto to add:

‘We’ll look at things at the end of this one, But whether it’s with me or someone else, it changes nothing. My successor needs foundations on which he can be successful.’

Personally, I don’t believe Arsene would go before:

1. Winning another trophy (preferably a European one) and 2. Having his successor trained and in place.

All this talk of Arsene leaving got me reminiscing on past Wengerisms and how much I’d miss them on a Sunday morning along with my bacon butty.

So here follows 12 of Wenger’s finest musings as Arsenal boss:

1. ‘I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel yesterday, but I fell asleep.’

2. After a disappointing draw with Middlesbrough in 1998 – ‘If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages.’

3. ‘A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.’

4. Following Sol Campbell’s departure to Portsmouth – ‘It is a big surprise to me because he cancelled his contract to go abroad. Have you sold Portsmouth to a foreign country?’

5. After Sepp Blatter’s accusation that big clubs were guilty of ‘child slavery’ – ‘If you have a child who is a good musician, what is your first reaction? It is to put them into a good music school, not in an average one. So why should that not happen in football?’

6. After the success of the Great Britain team at the Olympics – ‘I didn’t know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven’t seen a swimming pool.’

7. In response to Sir Alex Ferguson’s claim that he possessed the best team in the league, despite Arsenal winning the title in 2002 – ‘Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.’

8. After being asked if he’d received the apology that Sir Alex had announced he had sent to Wenger – ‘No. Perhaps he sent it by horse.’

9. On Emmanuel Adebayor’s stamp on Robin van Persie – ‘I watched it when I got home and it looked very bad. You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes.’

10. ‘I don’t kick dressing room doors or the cat or even football journalists.’

11. ‘We do not buy superstars. We make them.’

And my personal favourite:

12. After Jose Mourinho accused him of being a voyeur – ‘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.’

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