Thierry Henry says he'd love to manage Arsenal one day - but admits the idea is currently a pipedream.
Henry represented the Gunners as a player for eight years in the early 2000s, winning two Premier League titles and two FA Cups with the north London club.
Henry went into management in 2016 as Roberto Matinez's assistant at Belgium before taking over at Monaco and finally working as CF Montreal manager until very recently.
The World Cup winner is currently without a job but admits he'd like to manage Arsenal one day.
"Listen, if you ask an Arsenal fan if they'd like to coach Arsenal one day, they'll say yes," Henry told FourFourTwo.
"People get carried away whenever I say that it's my club, but I have it in my blood – I'm an Arsenal fan.
"So if you're asking me if one day I'd like to coach Arsenal, then yes. If you ask if one day I'd like to be Arsenal’s kit man, then yes. If you ask if one day I'd like to cut the grass at the Emirates Stadium, then yes. But it's a utopia, and I am far from that."
Henry was recently linked with the Bournemouth manager's job before the post was filled by Jonathan Woodgate, and admits he's always trying to learn from the masters of the game.
Henry added: "Whenever I see a coach, I always speak to them. Obviously, I speak to Pep, and I speak to Arsene whenever I can reach him. We speak because when I was a player and he was a coach, I was chewing his ear out. Now as a coach I want to know things.
"Arsene triggered my brain – I needed that at the time.
"I needed to be more confident, to realise what type of player I was and what I could do. I started to ask myself the right questions. I always blamed others, but I began to blame myself first.
"I started to see how I could help others instead of saying to others, 'Hey, you need to help me'."
* The full 10-page interview with Thierry Henry is in this month’s FourFourTwo on sale on Wednesday, March 10. Also in this issue, Javier Mascherano answers questions from readers, former Newcastle striker Michael Chopra opens up about gambling away £2million and a look at how Rangers roared back to success after 10 years. For a special Reach subscription offer of three issues of FourFourTwo for £3: www.magazinesdirect.com/fft/81av
