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Arsène Wenger OBE (born October 22, 1949, in Strasbourg) is a French football manager.

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Alternative Names: Arsene Wenger • Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger • Arsene Charles Ernest Wenger

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I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

You forget what you wrote last September, October, November. You have a little bit of Alzheimer's.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

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.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

I liked the pitch, I liked the referee, I did not like Paul Scholes' tackles.

As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

In England, football is important for everybody.

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.

We do not buy superstars. We make them.

I was surprised by the resources they find. They are amazing. It doesn't get any worse than losing a Champions League game the way we did, but I felt the way they responded was absolutely magnificent.

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.

We were considering him (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.