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David Byrom

Arsenal fans will love Arsene Wenger's response when asked to name the best player he managed

Arsene Wenger admits he cannot split Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp when it comes to the best players he managed at Arsenal.

Henry and Bergkamp were the spearhead for the Gunners' Invincible season, with both of the formidable attackers going down in Arsenal legend.

With Henry being Arsenal's record goal scorer and Bergkamp one of the most gifted players of his generation, there would be a hotly-contested debate over who was better.

Yet, when asked by BeIN Sport who was the best player he managed, Wenger opted to sit on the fence.

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He said: "Well you had Bergkamp, Thierry Henry…erm, yeah, too many!

"I don’t know. You know, because it’s always difficult to choose one."

Wenger also made the argument that the duo made each other better when he was asked who made Henry the player he was.

He explained: "Thierry Henry would say Dennis Bergkamp."

The former Gunners boss went on to voice concerns that the coronavirus crisis will only serve to make the rich club richer.

“I would say it has made the weak clubs weaker and the strong clubs stronger," he said. "And it has made us realise that what is taken for granted can be interrupted at any moment... and realise as well that we could live without it [football].

"It’s a very important part in our lives, but health came first and it gave us a good opportunity... to see the weak points of the structure of the game.

“We live in a world today that’s focused on grouping the elite. In England the leagues are dying; the Premier League will survive, I don’t worry for the Premier League.

"You worry more for out of 92 clubs, you have 65 clubs who lose money and behind closed doors they open the stadium – they lose money to play the game.

"So it is where football has to re-think how to we help these clubs to survive... because we need an elite but we need as well a basis where young players have a chance to play and where we have to get these people to survive."

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