In an age where managers don’t tend to stay at clubs for very long, it’s amazing that Arsene Wenger has been in charge of Arsenal for 20 years.
Not only has the Frenchman revolutionised the Gunners, he’s revolutionised English football too. He helped bring the Premier League into the modern times with his focus on sports science, advanced tactics and his belief in how the game should be played.
He’s not perfect, nobody is, but Arsenal have consistently been one of the best sides in England for the past two decades and he deserves a huge amount of credit for that.
Wenger inherited some good players when he arrived and he brought in some very good ones too.
Again, not every transfer worked out, Francis Jeffers for example, but in the past 20 years, Wenger has managed some unbelievably good players.
We’ve come up with the best combined XI from his tenure as Arsenal boss and we’ve done so in a 4-2-3-1 formation:
