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The former Gunners coach has said he does not speak to anyone from the club’s top management just two years after leaving office.
Arsene Wenger has revealed that he has no communication with the Arsenal management.
The Frenchman was inscribed in club history thanks to a 22-year stint in charge of the North London team, in which he won three Premier League titles, leading to an undefeated 2003-04 League campaign. and to the final of the Champions League in 2006, only losing 2-1 to Barcelona.
He has since taken on a role at FIFA as the governing body’s head of world football development, but no longer has any association with the Gunners.
Talking to Athletic, he was asked if he still talks to someone at the top of the club and he replied: “No”
He was pressured on what he wanted to say when he wrote in his book that he faced “hostility from a section of the fans and the board” that he felt was “unjustified.”
The 70-year-old did not elaborate, but added: “This is how I experienced it. I didn’t like making a book where I don’t express my honest feelings about what happened. That is why the link was completely severed after my stay at the club so you can understand, but that’s what happened. “
Although he no longer has ties to the club, he has asked the current board to call on Thierry Henry, the Gunners’ all-time top scorer, to take over after Mikel Arteta imprinted a strong identity on the club and the lead to a first Premier League title since his departure two years ago.
Wenger took over Arsenal 1,235 times from October 1996 to May 2018 and earned 707 victories during that time.
His influence was such that he is credited with bringing a broader new perspective to the Premier League, having been just the fourth foreign manager to take over a top-notch English club.
He began his managerial career with Nancy, whom he took over for three years from 1984 before moving to Monaco and then Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan.
In 2002, he was awarded the Legion d’honneur, the highest order of merit in France.
