Arsene Wenger

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"Love me when I draw and when I lose. To love me when I win is very easy." "Jump on the boat because this is the way we are going to live the next four months." "I will burn every drop of blood for this football club to make it better." "Ask yourself a question, do you want to be part of the noise or not? If not, go and do something else, be part of a different club." Mikel Arteta’s most inspirational quotes as Arsenal manager ✨

Always a pleasure 🫡

Happy Birthday Mikel Arteta. We Trust This Process! ❤️🤍 #Arsenal #StreetArt

It’s Mikel Arteta’s 44th birthday. He already has an impressive record in his young managerial career with Arsenal 🔴

Celebrating his birthday with a @PremierLeague Manager of the Month nomination 👏 Vote for Mikel here 🗳️ arsn.al/VPX1rYV

Happy birthday to Mikel Arteta 🇪🇸❤️

Like player, like manager. ❤️ 🎨 @livescore

Happy birthday, Mikel Arteta. 🥳 The quickest Arsenal manager to reach 100 Premier League wins and the Gunners boss with the most victories in their first 300 matches in all competitions. 💪 His managerial career by numbers: ◉ 339 games ◉ 210 wins ◉ 62% win rate He turns 44 today. 🎂

David Raya has been nominated for March's @PremierLeague Player of the Month award 👊 Vote for our stopper 🗳️ arsn.al/iQhLVQn

Happy 44th birthday to former Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta 🔵

Happy Birthday to the midfield maestro, Mikel Arteta 🇪🇸🎂

Happy birthday, Mikel ❤️

Happy Birthday to the manager who made Arsenal fans believe again ❤️ @Arsenal l @m8arteta

Arsenal fans will like this one. How did you think Arsenal found Wenger? Through a cigarette lighter. I promise- I wish I was kidding. Arsenal were not allowed to let women into their boardroom in 1989, and that sexist rule accidentally led to the greatest appointment in the club's entire history, because the women were kept in a separate cocktail lounge at half time. And that was where Barbara Dein spotted a tall, suave continental man in a beige trenchcoat and rimless glasses standing quietly in the corner. She and her friend Penny Grade had gone over simply to ask him for a cigarette lighter, but Barbara was so struck by this elegant, intellectual Frenchman that she immediately sent her husband David a message telling him there was someone in the lounge he needed to meet, the manager of Monaco. David Dein came out of the boardroom, met Arsene Wenger, and invited him to dinner that same evening where they played charades, and Wenger's intellect impressed Dein so deeply that he wrote his name in his diary that night with a quiet conviction that this was someone Arsenal needed. From that evening, Dein stayed in regular contact with Wenger, sending him VHS tapes of Arsenal matches every week for years, which is how Wenger came to know so much about the club long before he ever managed them. That was 1989, and it took seven more years of Dein fighting the Arsenal board, who rejected his suggestion to appoint Wenger as early as 1995, before they finally agreed after Bruce Rioch's dismissal in 1996, and the British press responded to the appointment by asking "Arsene Who?" which remains one of the most embarrassing headlines in football journalism history. Wenger spent the next 22 years making that question look very foolish, winning 3 Premier League titles including the completely unbeaten Invincibles season of 2003/04 where Arsenal went the entire league campaign without losing once, a record that still stands today, along with seven FA Cups which made him the most successful manager in the history of that competition, and two league and cup doubles, and a Champions League final appearance in 2006, all across 1,235 games in charge. What most people outside Arsenal do not fully appreciate though is what Wenger did for the club financially, because his ability to find players like Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pires, Kolo Toure and Cesc Fabregas for fractions of their actual market value completely transformed how Arsenal operated. A survey in 2007 found that Wenger was the only Premier League manager to have made a profit on transfers, averaging £4.4 million profit per season between 2004 and 2009, and that financial discipline directly contributed to the club's ability to finance the construction of the Emirates Stadium, a £390 million project that Arsenal funded largely through their own resources without the billionaire backing that most clubs depend on today. He left in 2018 after 22 years and joined FIFA as Chief of Global Football Development in 2019, responsible for developing the game across 211 countries, and David Dein, who was dismissed by Arsenal on 18 April 2007 following a boardroom dispute over outside investment, went on to become an Ambassador for both the Premier League and the FA. He also founded The Twinning Project, a charity connecting football clubs with local prisons to help rehabilitate offenders, which he described as the work that animates him most. Dein has since said that Wenger's treatment on leaving Arsenal made him "so angry" and that the club should have made him chairman, which tells you everything about the bond that began with a cigarette lighter in a cocktail lounge in 1989. One small moment started all of it. Hope you learned something today. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

Three Arsenal greats but most important, three great guys who supported us in our annual fundraiser at the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly! @thedavidseaman @LeeDixon2 @mertesacker

Form is temporary, class is forever. Arteta and this team are the pretty much the opposite of what the narrative is (but that doesn't generate ad revenue now does it) #arsenal

🚨DID YOU KNOW: From 2002-2011, Arsenal women finished the season with at least a treble.

A reminder that an 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly was the highest rated defender in both of Arsenal's Champions League games against Real Madrid last season ⭐️

🎙Jens Lehmann was asked if Arteta made a mistake by choosing Kepa....... 🗣“Not at all. Kepa is a good keeper and he got into the final with them. He did well. “The ball he wanted to catch, it actually speaks for him that he wanted to catch it. He probably misjudged it a little bit, should have flipped it over the crossbar, but things happen.” [SPORTBIBLE]

Rumours starting to build that Manchester City will be getting a points deduction pretty soon.