RSENE WENGER has told bitter rival Jose Mourinho: Winning the
Champions League does not make you a great manager.
Mourinho boasted ahead of this Sundays Carling Cup final between
Chelsea and Arsenal how he has won Europes biggest prize while the
Gunners chief has not.
But Wenger hit back and argued there are managers in the French
Second Division equal to the Blues boss.
Wenger, who has never beaten Mourinho in six matches, said: Plenty
of managers have won the Champions League who will not be
considered as great managers.
And there are plenty of people working in France in Divisions Two
or Three who I rate very highly, because what they do is
sensational. They are fantastic.
I enjoy what I do. My obsession is not to be compared. I try to
help people who are at Arsenal Football Club.
The importance of the manager is over the longer distance, the
continuity in his career. Can he get good teams together and play
in a certain style?
What is important is that you look at careers over 10, 15 or 20
years. What kind of quality have you brought in your work and on
what consistent level you have done it.
I have an honest commitment everywhere and, after that, whether
people judge Im great or small or half-great or half-small is down
to them.
It will not change my life if I dont win the Champions
League.
We played a whole season unbeaten yet you did not see me every
week jumping on the tables.
Wenger also had a shock lift for Watfords Aidy Boothroyd. The
Frenchman said: I feel as well maybe the Watford manager has as
much merit as I have. Its very difficult to judge.
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For me, SAF of MUFC is one of the great manager, he came into MUFC,
cleared out the nonsense, brought some good players, managed to
develop a bunch of youngsters, won european cup, many League and FA
Cups.
And instill the way MUFC should play.
Not all will agree, but let's share, what ultimately separate a
good from great managers?
Don't restrict to EPL, like what Wenger says, even from lower
division.
