You will see me in a dugout again, admits Arsene Wenger

09/03/2019

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The French manager is currently retired from professional football, but reportedly he looks eager to return. Arsene Wenger managed Arsenal for 22 years straight, winning several titles, including an unbeaten Premier League run, something that has never been done by any other club since then.

Since leaving Arsenal at the end of the 2017/18 season, Arsene Wenger has been unemployed. A choice that the former Arsenal and Monaco boss reveals that he has taken willingly and not because of a lack of offers. However, during his time out of the game, the Frenchman has been heavily involved with football spending his time as a pundit, but in an interview with beIN Sports, he admitted he can't grasp the idea of never returning to the sidelines.

"I rejected some nice offers because I did not feel ready. Maybe I realised how much I was in my own bubble, alienating myself from the rest of the world when I was managing. Putting a bit of distance between myself and our world made me hesitate to jump back into the fire-pit so quickly," he told beIN SPORT.

"You will see me in a dugout again, when, I don’t know exactly. I cannot live today with the fact I will never be on the bench again. I might go for an intermediate position. What I want for sure is to share what I know and what I've learned as much as I can. I would like to experience for one last time the intensity of competition.

Wenger won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups during his time with the club, but many analysts believed that the manager was done and couldn't reinvent himself. The Strasbourg-born coach thinks otherwise, "'When you have been in the game for such a long time, I would never have felt I could leave Arsenal without being disconnected from the club, but I had to reinvent a new life," concluded the former Arsenal boss.

It is to be seen yet if we'll sight Arsene Wenger stand on the sidelines for another club in the next few years.