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Arsenal Annihilation: Read Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger's post-match comments

The match between Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC which shockingly ended 6-0 few hours ago was Arsene Wenger’s 1,000th game in charge of the club. Sure most Arsenal fans had pictured a beautiful win to commemorate their Manager’s latest milestone in the club. But it turned out to be a disaster, a nightmare an embarrassing defeat on a day the whole Arsenal camp was supposed to be celebrating their iconic boss. The match unofficially ended at the 17th minute, after Chelsea had successfully netted in their 3rd goal. The rest they say is history.
Anyways, did anyone wonder why Jose Mourinho walked away at the 89th minute of the match? The general concensus is, he wanted to avoid a handshake with the Frenchman who he had been at loggerheads with of late (and all the time). But if you ask me, he probably went to have a good laugh somewhere. We know Mourinho, we know what he’s capable of doing.
Anyways, here are both coaches’ post-match comments.
 
 
No one else could blow Jose Mourinho’s trumpet better.
 
“We had 10 amazing minutes and with that you can win the game and show everybody that you won’t give a chance to any opponent. I was so happy with the approach, we came to kill and in 10 minutes we destroyed them. After that first 10 minutes, the job was easy. We pressed them high and well and attacked the space very quickly. We got the result with some numbers which are special for our fans, which makes it even more beautiful. ManCity have everything in their hands, Liverpool have everything in their hands. Nobody plays Champions League from the top four, they have just the Premier League matches to play and we have at least two big Champions League matches to play in between.”
Arsene Wenger on the other hand was devastated and he accepted “full responsibility for the defeat.
“This defeat is my fault, I take full responsibility for it. I don’t think there’s too much need to talk about the mistakes we made. We got a good hiding today. It’s how we respond now on Tuesday night against Swansea and the best way is not to explain too much the mistakes.Yes, of course it’s one of the worst days in my career. It’s over after 20 minutes and it’s a long game after that. You don’t prepare all week to experience that kind of experience.”
 
He also talked on the controversial handball incident that saw Kieran Gibbs mistakenly sent off and a penalty awarded to the Blues.
 
“I believe it was handball but the referee hasn’t seen it. The ball went out and I think it’s Chamberlain who touched the ball. I don’t know who gave indication to the referee that it was handball but he has certainly not seen it. Of course it’s a huge disappointment today but we want to win the next game now.”
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Arsene Wenger at 1,000 games: Sir Alex Ferguson pays tribute

Former Manchester United coach, Sir Alex Ferguson has paid a tribute to Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger ahead of his 1,000th game in charge
“I congratulate Arsène in reaching this momentous landmark. Having also reached the same milestone at one club, I cannot emphasize enough the level of dedication, resilience as well as sacrifice required and for that I have for the utmost admiration.
Over the years we enjoyed some fantastic battles and you could say we had survived together and respected each other’s efforts to play good football. I always enjoy watching Arsène’s sides – Arsenal play the right way. Playing against them always presented special challenges that I burned many hours over the years thinking about.
He has always been a conscientious member of our trade who makes it his business to help other managers.
Perhaps the biggest compliment I could give Arsène is that I could never be anything other than competitive with my rival for 17 years.”
Wenger who will become the fourth manager after Sir Matt Busby, Dario Gradi and Sir Alex Ferguson to reach the milestone said,
“It makes you feel ‘where did the time go? It looks to me like I started yesterday, I can’t believe it is such a long time.
Why? Because you’re always focused on looking forward to the next game and when you look back you think ‘I made quite a distance there’. Despite that, your only interest is the next game, our drug is the next game, the hope for the next game, the desire to win the next one.
You go step by step and finally when you look back it’s a long time. I would just like to say for me it’s an honour to manage a club of this dimension for such a long time and I would like to thank everybody who is involved in the club for giving me such a confidence for such a long time.”
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UCL clash: Arjen Robben hits back at Arsene Wenger

The barrage of insults unleashed on Arsene Wenger these days though! Very soon we might start drawing up the list of players and Managers who have slammed the French boss. Bayern’s Arjen Robben has angrily lashed out at the Arsenal coach after the latter tagged him a “good diver” in the wake of the German’s club victory over the Gunners last night.

The 63 year-old Manager who faulted his penalty was quoted thus after last night match, “He is a very good diver, but that is the way it goes. It is the referee – Robben is a fantastic player, but he doesn’t need to do it. He gets in front of the player, he goes down. We spoke about this yesterday. If the referee gives him a yellow card he will not do it again.”

The Holland international hit back at him, “I always say if you are a big manager then take your loss. If you win be happy, enjoy, but if you lose don’t complain about silly things. It was two legitimate penalties but I don’t want to defend myself. From a big manager you expect a little bit more.”

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"Arsene Wenger has done minor miracles"

Call him a Specialist in failure or a trophyless business man, there are other people who believe Arsene Wenger remains a fantastic manager. Arsenal Legend, Bob Wilson is one of them. He thinks the Frenchman has done extremely well and his achievements cannot be measured in trophies alone (despite the 9-year drought at the English club)
“When you put everything into perspective in terms of the money and where the game is at, then to even be challenging this season, a point behind Chelsea with the way the club is managed, is a minor miracle and a great feather in the cap for this squad of players. If Arsenal could win the league this year, then in my opinion that would be an achievement to rank close to the ‘invincibles’ season. I look not only Arsene’s great achievements when he first came.
“It is about what has happened since then, with (Arsenal) building a new ground and all the debt that incurred, but still getting in the Champions League. Obviously you are going all that time without winning a trophy, which is now nearly nine years, but who has been winning things? Yes, Wigan won the FA Cup last year, but you need to play well and have the luck of the draw, but if you are talking about the major things, being champions of your country and Europe, then it all becomes secondary.
The 72 year old added, “Would you really rather say ‘well, we won the League Cup’, but then not be in the Champions League again next season? I personally wouldn’t. What Arsene has achieved with the (financial) constraints of the new stadium move, is truly amazing.
We know Manchester City have a sheikh and Chelsea have an oligarch and have won things because of the money they have spent – Chelsea had not won the league championship for 50 years before Roman Abramovich arrived – but the Mesut Ozil signing shows the Arsenal board can now make a statement. We now have to go into this area of paying £40m or £50m if you are really going to seriously challenge under a company run in a proper way against the bottomless pits (of wealthy owners).”
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History of crossfires between Wenger and Mourinho.

 
Still on the Mourinho and Wenger matter. So, here’s a history of crossfires between the two coaches. And from the look of things both Managers are not ironing out their creases anytime soon.


August 2005
Wenger accuses Mourinho of being ultra-defensive. “I know we live in a world where we have only winners and losers, but once a sport encourages teams who refuse to take the initiative, the sport is in danger.”


October 2005
Jose does not take insults lying low, “Wenger has a real problem with us and I think he is what you call in England a voyeur. He is someone who likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, have this big telescope to look into the homes of other people and see what is happening. Wenger must be one of them – it is a sickness.”


November 2005
Arsene lashes out at the Portuguese. “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.”

November 2005
Mourinho revisits old rivalries. “At Stamford Bridge, we have a file of quotes from Mr Wenger about Chelsea football club in the last 12 months – it is not a file of five pages. It is a file of 120 pages.”

April 2007

Wenger accuses Mourinho of being a chequebook manager. “If you would like to compare every manager you give each one the same amount of resources and say ‘you have that for five years’. After five years you see who has done the most.”


April 2008
Mourinho despite being sacked by Chelsea still finds time to continue the tirade, “The English like statistics a lot. Do they know that Arsene Wenger has only 50 per cent of wins in the English league?”

December 2013

Mourinho accuses Arsenal players of having a “tradition of crying”. “You know, they like to cry. That’s tradition. But I prefer to say, and I was telling it to the fourth official, that English people – Frank Lampard, for example – would never provoke a situation like that.”
January 2014

Wenger airs his view about Mourinho selling Juan Mata to Manchester United.
“Chelsea have already played twice against Man United, they could have sold him last week. I think if you want to respect the fairness for everybody, this should not happen.”

January 2014
Jose overlooks Arsene’s complaint and insists the fixture is in Arsenal’s favour.
“Wenger complaining is normal because he always does. Normally he should be happy that Chelsea sold a player like Juan Mata, but this is a little bit his nature. I think what is not fair is that his team always has the best days to play.”
February 2014

Arsene Wenger’s response after Mourinho downplayed Chelsea’s chances of winning the title. “It is very open, only Chelsea can lose it now because they are in front and all the other teams can win it. I’ve always said many teams are in it and it will be very tight until the end.”

The acidic Mourinho reply the world is still talking about, “He is a specialist in failure. I’m not, If supposedly he is right and I’m afraid to fail, it’s because I haven’t failed many times. Maybe he’s right. Maybe I’m not used to failing. The reality is he is a specialist. Eight years without a piece of silverware, that’s failure. If I do that at Chelsea, eight years, I leave London and I don’t come back.”

Arsene is calm this time around but still drives his point home. “I won’t comment on silly disrespectful remarks, I never spoke about him in my press conferences and I won’t start. It’s more embarrassing for Chelsea than for me.”


The End….(Till another round comes up.lol)
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UEFA BANS ARSENE WENGER FOR IMPROPER CONDUCT

UEFA, the administrative body for football in Europe has banned Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger for his uncomplimentary remarks about referee Damir Skomina during Arsenal's Champions League game with AC Milan on 6th March 2012.

This will be the third time the French would be picking a ban. Asides that, the coach who has been suspended from carrying out his managerial duties for the next three European games will pay a fine of €40,000 (£33,000).

The match which ended 3-0 didn't favour the club as they were knocked out 4-3 on aggregate, Wenger couldn't hide his feelings either, "I was not happy with the referee tonight because I felt he gave many free-kicks in the middle of the park."

Speaking before the news was made public, the 63 year-old ex footballer said, "If I am suspended then it is not justified and I will appeal straight away. I believe that they have transformed UEFA competition referees to be untouchable icons, where you cannot even have a word.

"The only thing they understand after the game is the report. I believe that when you have 25 years consecutively in Europe you can still ask the referee that you can have some discussion with him. It is very difficult to understand."

Arsenal is expected to appeal the ban/fine within 3 days.

Source: The Guardian

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WORLD'S 10 HIGHEST PAID FOOTBALL MANAGERS

Here is goal.com‘s list of 10 football Managers and their pay-packets per year.

1) Jose Mourinho/Real Madrid-£11.2m a year
2) Diego Maradonna/Al Wasl-£9.9m
3) Pep Guardiola/Barcelona- £8.7m
4) Fabio Capello/England-£6m
5) Arsene Wenger/Arsenal-£6m
6) Carlo Ancelotti/Paris Saint Germain-£4.9m
7) Luiz Felipe Scolari/Palmeiras-£4.4m
8) Andre Villas-Boas/Chelsea- £4.3m
9) Sir Alex Ferguson/Man. United- £4m
10) Roberto Mancini/Man. City-£3.8m

If I were to read most minds, some coaches should earn better than their current pay. Sir Alex Ferguson, I understand is signing a new contract which is expected to upgrade his salary to £6.5m a year and a £1m bonus thus making him Britain’s fourth highest paid manager.

Source: Goal.com

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THIERRY HENRY TO REJOIN ARSENAL

34 year old french footballer, Henry Thienry is fully set to rejoin his former club, Arsenal football club. The striker who after leaving Arsenal in 2007 went to Spain's Barcelona football club and then New York Red Bull has started training with the rest of the arsenal team.
Speaking on his return, Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger stated that the club is happy to have him back adding that his reputation is not on the line.
"You can never take away from people what they have done, that will remain forever. Nobody expects him to be what he was 10 years ago, we just want him to help out."
"I think it is just credit to him to want to be helpful to a club that has given him so much. Therefore I feel there is no special pressure to be the player he was before."
"I believe our fans are happy that players who have done well for the club want to help out again. That is very positive," he said.
"We had that before and it shows that Arsenal have a special link with our players because we had Sol Campbell and Jens Lehmann who helped out for a while and did very well. Now we have Thierry. It is a continuity of the special link with our former players and they are all happy that Thierry is coming back, too. You can always learn in life from people who have the knowledge he has. That was one of the reasons why we brought Jens Lehmann and Sol Campbell back. They have a weight in the dressing room." He affirmed.

Source: Arsenal.com

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ARSENAL UNVEILS THIENRY HENRY, HERBERT CHAPMAN, TONY ADAMS' STATUTES.

As part of it’s 125th Anniversary celebrations, Arsenal football club has honoured a trio of its club legends by unveiling three statues outside Emirates Stadium.
The Legends consisting of ex manager Herbert Chapman (1925 and 1934), defensive stalwart Tony Adams and Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer Thierry Henry have all been commemorated in bronze statues,
The unveiling which was done by Arsenal Chairman, Peter Hill-Wood on Friday 9th December 2011 had the attendance of Arsenal fans, Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger, Thiery Henry and others.
Speaking at the ceremony, Peter Hill-Wood, said, “This year is very special in the history of Arsenal Football Club, when we are celebrating our 125th anniversary. This is not only a good moment to look forward to an exciting future, but also to look back and celebrate great figures in the history of our Club.
“Today is a celebration of three hugely influential figures in the history of Arsenal Football Club. Herbert Chapman, Tony Adams and Thierry Henry are three Arsenal Legends who have all contributed so much to the successes of this football club.”
“These legends are now proudly on display outside Emirates Stadium for all to see, and will provide a way for Arsenal supporters, and indeed any visitors to the stadium, to remember them and pay their own tributes to these three great men.” He concluded.

Source:Arsenal.com

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