MANAGER ARSENE WENGER EXPLAINS WHY SOME STARS LEFT
“In football management, you cannot
cheat because when you work with 30 players, they detect the weaknesses in your
personality.
“The moment of truth is when a player sits in front of you and decides if you can help them to become successful.
“No matter how big a star he is, he is ready to listen to you if you meet his needs. And the way for him to establish that is to test you. If they think you can help them, then they will respect you.
“Then they must decide whether they are in a squad who can help them become successful. That was a problem for Arsenal when we were operating under financially-restricted conditions. For some players, we didn’t have enough stars to be successful as quickly as they wanted to be.
“That’s always one of the problems when the egos are big.
“If they are under-performing, my biggest power is to drop the player.
“One of the difficulties is we have 25 people who fight to play on Saturday and on Friday night 14 are unemployed and I have to tell them ‘Monday we start again and you have another chance’.
“The West is totally focused on individual achievement — you have to be successful no matter what.
“Only one thing counts and that is success at any price, even if you cheat a little bit, even if you have to kill your partners.
“The sense of co-operation in Europe has dropped dramatically. But that is the magic of team sport. A good footballer should feel he can express himself, but also be helpful to the group.
“If one of the two is missing you’ll never be completely happy.
“In football, you manage people who are 18, 19, 20. The maturity is not yet there but they are under huge public pressure to perform and win in front of 60,000 people.
“You can work in an office at 70 per cent of your potential and do your job well. But you can’t as a footballer.
“That’s where the stress comes from. One player being weak can cost you the game.
“Every minute of every day a footballer tests himself.
“That puts the body and the mind under pressure because you know you can only perform in a game if you’re 100 per cent. What makes a top-level sportsman is their motivation for success.
“The other day in Saitama I went for a jog but couldn’t find my way back to the hotel.
“I could have got a taxi, but because I am a sportsman I decided to keep running and find my own way back.
“Motivation is not enough. It is the consistency of motivation that counts. Many people start diets on January 1. Some of them will last until mid-January, some give up mid-June and a small number last right to the end of the year.
“We are interested only in the last group because that is what makes a successful sportsman.
“We want the people that are very demanding with themselves and each other for a long time.
“It doesn’t necessarily mean successful sportsmen are happy people but it means they are determined and are ready to hurt themselves to be successful. That’s the type we are looking for.”
“The moment of truth is when a player sits in front of you and decides if you can help them to become successful.
“No matter how big a star he is, he is ready to listen to you if you meet his needs. And the way for him to establish that is to test you. If they think you can help them, then they will respect you.
“Then they must decide whether they are in a squad who can help them become successful. That was a problem for Arsenal when we were operating under financially-restricted conditions. For some players, we didn’t have enough stars to be successful as quickly as they wanted to be.
“That’s always one of the problems when the egos are big.
“If they are under-performing, my biggest power is to drop the player.
“One of the difficulties is we have 25 people who fight to play on Saturday and on Friday night 14 are unemployed and I have to tell them ‘Monday we start again and you have another chance’.
“The West is totally focused on individual achievement — you have to be successful no matter what.
“Only one thing counts and that is success at any price, even if you cheat a little bit, even if you have to kill your partners.
“The sense of co-operation in Europe has dropped dramatically. But that is the magic of team sport. A good footballer should feel he can express himself, but also be helpful to the group.
“If one of the two is missing you’ll never be completely happy.
“In football, you manage people who are 18, 19, 20. The maturity is not yet there but they are under huge public pressure to perform and win in front of 60,000 people.
“You can work in an office at 70 per cent of your potential and do your job well. But you can’t as a footballer.
“That’s where the stress comes from. One player being weak can cost you the game.
“Every minute of every day a footballer tests himself.
“That puts the body and the mind under pressure because you know you can only perform in a game if you’re 100 per cent. What makes a top-level sportsman is their motivation for success.
“The other day in Saitama I went for a jog but couldn’t find my way back to the hotel.
“I could have got a taxi, but because I am a sportsman I decided to keep running and find my own way back.
“Motivation is not enough. It is the consistency of motivation that counts. Many people start diets on January 1. Some of them will last until mid-January, some give up mid-June and a small number last right to the end of the year.
“We are interested only in the last group because that is what makes a successful sportsman.
“We want the people that are very demanding with themselves and each other for a long time.
“It doesn’t necessarily mean successful sportsmen are happy people but it means they are determined and are ready to hurt themselves to be successful. That’s the type we are looking for.”
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