Arsene Wenger has been in charge of Arsenal for 21 years
The Arsenal manager said this week that he would go in front of the Gunners board and be judged at the end of this season, even though will then still have a year left on the contract he signed in May.
But Wenger, whose side face struggling Swansea today, believes that people concentrate on the moment in life, and forget the values of the past.
The Frenchman, who has been in charge for 21 years and insisted at a stormy AGM in front of unhappy supporters on Thursday that he would always uphold the values of his club whatever happened, said: “When I see the dissent it reinforces my beliefs. “This club is about values. In the modern game we lose the perspective of what is important and what is not. It is always about here and now.
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Arsene Wenger
“You have the same example with Brexit – it’s just here and now, but where do we go from there? Nobody really knows. Maybe it is good, maybe it is bad. I don’t know. But nobody has explained what will happen in the future.
“Somebody said 500 years ago the target for people was to be a saint. Fifty years ago it was to be a hero in a war. Today it is to be a billionaire, or a celebrity. It is all instant – here and now. But it has to be sustained by something.
“What I liked when I came to England was that the weight of the past was there and important. Now, the weight of the present is predominant.”
His Swansea counterpart Paul Clement says his club should not fear their meeting with Arsenal as they chase looking for what would be only their third Premier League win of the season.
And he believes his men can recreate the stubborn performance which saw them earn a goalless draw against Tottenham at Wembley last month.
“We can always be excited about playing the big teams. Certainly from the outside there’s always less pressure being built up,” he said.
“These games aren’t the most difficult in terms of preparation and motivation. Teams like Arsenal are the ones we probably know most about. We know them well and we know what to expect.
“For me they’re the games I most look forward to.”
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