Wenger replies Mourinho – “I’d have considered being on the board at Arsenal as an adviser”

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Wenger has revealed his desire to have become an adviser for his former club.

Arsene Wenger has revealed his desire to have become an adviser for Arsenal while answering to Jose Mourinho in the Q&A session with the Guardian.

Wenger left the Gunners as their longest-serving manager in history in 2018 and hasn’t since taken a new managerial job elsewhere.

Although there were offers from Bayern Munich, the 70-year-old ended up taking the role of the Chief of FIFA’s global football development.

During the Q/A session with the Guardian, Jose Mourinho, the current Tottenham boss, asked Wenger whether he would have taken an executive job with Arsenal.

Mourinho asked:”I had the opportunity to get to know you at UEFA and FIFA meetings and dinners. With your culture and vision, I believe you have the qualities to be a top exec, such as a CEO or director of football, at a club. Would you have ever considered such a role at Arsenal or was your desire always to remain on the pitch?”

Wenger replied to his old rival that he would have considered being an adviser for the Gunners, stating that many of the top-clubs – the hierarchy – don’t understand their value. However, Wenger stated that the Champions League winners Bayern Munich are an exception.

“No, I would have considered being on the board at Arsenal as an adviser. I believe that honestly there is a deficit of knowledge in the big clubs of top, top-level competition and games of top-level sport. And I believe we have seen recently that there are many ways to be successful in football. For example, there’s the Bayern [Munich] way, where the whole success and continuity relies on people who know the values of the club, and they transfer that from generation to generation: Beckenbauer, Hoeness, Rummenigge. Or there are models in England of quick money and quick success. Both can work. I like the fact that a club is first an identity and has knowledge that is transferred from generation to generation. So that’s why I saw things that way.”