Arsene Wenger Quotes

"I don't need anything, I just need to go on with my job and say what I want to say,"

"It was hard work. If we were not resilient and not determined, we would have gone out. You know what to expect when you come here. The sending-off of Diouf did not change the way they played."

"We gave absolutely everything, but we lacked a little bit of mental sharpness, maybe because of Tuesday night."

"We have a good game but we need to transform the quality of our game into points and that's what we're missing,"

"There was a third goal in that game and it is a regret that we didn't get it."

"We need good form for the rest of the season and the team is going and is getting better and better every game."

"He's okay and focused to come back and to work hard to get back into the team."

"We are short at the moment. Ashley Cole will be out for six to eight weeks but Sol Campbell's absence will be shorter than expected. He could be fit for Tuesday."

"We were a bit lucky tonight. It is a fantastic achievement and the team has great character. We didn't manage to play tonight, I don't know if that was for physical reasons or psychological reasons. We never came into our fluent game — we needed luck and resilience and we had both tonight."

"It's difficult to believe we lost. They didn't create the chances, we gave them away."

"It is an incitement to cheat."

"We're not desperate to buy anybody. But if you find an exceptional player who can add a little class where we need it, we'll do it. He could be one of them."

"You cannot take class away. Maybe Dennis has lost a little pace, and maybe he needs to play more often than we can give him. But this became his day because he made it so. He scored a great goal and created a second, but he also gave us intelligence and class."

"We became very dangerous and he scored a great goal and after he kept the game under control and then scored a late second goal."

"We were on the case longer than Chelsea. We monitored him for a couple of years, and emotions are not always rational."

"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."

"When he comes back, he has such hunger."

"I feel lucky, in our job, to make 500 games. But I've never been a big fan of looking back. I try to use history to be better tomorrow."

"Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that."

"It has crossed my mind to help Emmanuel. He is here to get back to full fitness and find a club,"