Henry meets Wenger

Thierry Henry met Arsene Wenger to talk about his 20 years at Arsenal and much more ahead of the Gunners’ trip to Burnley on Nissan Super Sunday.

Wenger celebrates his 20th anniversary as Arsenal manager this weekend and former Arsenal striker Henry caught up with “the boss” to discuss a number of topics, including his best and worst moments as manager, formations and his current squad at the Emirates…

Henry: First of all, congratulations on your 20 years at Arsenal. There’s always been a question I’ve wanted to ask you. As Arsenal manager, what is your best and worst moment?

Wenger: The best moment is maybe when we won our first title and after that the Invincible year because I think the dream of every coach is to make a spotless year. The 2004 season was exceptional because you had everything. The players had individual quality, we were a team and we had natural collective spirit. It was just exceptional. A moment you never have in your career, basically.

You said the first double as well. Why exactly?

I came to England completely unknown. Arsene who? I was a bit French when I arrived and there was a lot of scepticism about my appointment. Just to know that I can win was something very important because I could convince people I had a chance to do a good job here.

And the worst?

One of the worst moments was last year when we lost at Manchester United. It was the moment where you felt the championship is lost. It was a game we couldn’t afford to lose and not to turn up on the day, you wonder ‘what did I do wrong there? What didn’t work?’ It was a game we were expected to win, absolutely. We had to win it but I felt, more than losing the game, we were just not at the races on the day.

If I said to you 4-4-2 to a 4-2-3-1, why did you change formations?

The game has always been the same. I adapted to the personality of the players I had. We played 4-4-2 with Dennis Bergkamp, who was a striker but when he played with you it became a little bit of a 4-2-3-1. Mainly I changed because in the Champions League I felt we lost the midfield sometimes and suffered a lot. It depends a lot on the individual quality of the striker, who can create something on his own. I felt we could play with one more player in midfield and still be dangerous. As well, at the time we had players like Freddie Ljungberg, who …

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