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Henry ready to succeed Wenger

By Daily Sports on March 5, 2018

Arsenal great Thierry Henry has said he would not "back down from a challenge" if a vacancy arose to succeed Arsene Wenger as manager of the Gunners.

However, Henry is desperate for his under-fire fellow Frenchman to have the "last word" on an Arsenal career that started back when Wenger took charge of the north London club in 1996.

Long-running speculation about Wenger's position at Arsenal intensified after the Gunners suffered a fourth successive defeat in all competitions, a 2-1 Premier League loss away to Brighton, on Sunday – a result that left them a huge 13 points adrift of the top four.

Former France forward Henry, currently working as an assistant to Belgium manager Roberto Martinez, was asked on Sky Sports if he would take the Arsenal job should the opportunity arise.

"Listen, I'm a competitor, you don't back down from a challenge," the 40-year-old replied. "We are hypothetically speaking before people jump ahead of everything, (but) I have never backed down from a challenge since I was young.

"If I had listened to people who were talking about where I was going to be, I would not have been here.

"When I arrived at Arsenal, they said to me, 'Why are you outside of the box, you will never score goals?' with my position being on the left or whatever it was. You don't back down from a challenge, you always think that you can.

"When I came back to play for Arsenal, everybody, all my friends were saying, 'It can only tarnish your legacy, why are you going back there?'."

Henry added: "If you love a place and they ask – I repeat, they ask – for help, you are always going to say yes. What I am saying to you is again, we are talking about hypothetical thoughts."

Having won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups under Wenger, Henry, Arsenal's all-time record goalscorer, said he was desperate for the veteran manager to decide his own future. © AFP

•Photo shows Thierry Henry.

Source Daily Sports

Posted March 5, 2018