There are few players in contemporary soccer who have ever been in the aspiring list of many clubs and there is no prize for guessing that Messi, Neymar, and Ronaldo are, of course, few of them. If we are talking about the hungriest leagues for the good talent it is obviously English Premier League whose sides love to bring brightest talents on English soil and Arsenal is one of them. Gunners manager has revealed, probably for the first time, that it was him who wanted to sign Ronaldo but somehow deal could not click and Sir Alex Ferguson snatched their cake from their hands back in 2003. It is actually nothing new to know that there were many sides who used to be in touch with Portuguese but as Wenger has revealed now, Gunners had almost done the formalities to bring him at Emirates Stadium. Don’t know why Arsenal’s longest-serving manager is disclosing the facts now or he is trying to show they are still interested in the FIFA Ballon d’Or holder. Notably, Gunners lost their debut Championship game with a surprise hence manager is tying to recoup the loss by winning their next premier league game.
This is not the end of his regret as he also named Chelsea striker Didier Drogba as the one he would have loved to mentor. Notably, Drogba signed the deal with Chelsea and proved to be the lethal one for Gunners in his opening season for the Blues and looking at the today’s form of both these players, Wenger could be expressing his regret from the core. Talking about Ronaldo who later moved to Spanish giant Real Madrid at a record breaking fee, Frenchman said, “My biggest regret? I was so close to signing Cristiano Ronaldo, and not only did I not get him, he signed for Manchester United. So that of course still hurts today.
“I would have loved to have managed Didier Drogba for two reasons. One, I missed him when he played in France at Le Mans, not even in the top league. I knew there was a good player there and I missed him. Secondly because he hurt us so much in the big games. All this pain would not have happened.”
Adding about their dismissal show in the season, he said, “We also have to recover from disappointments. Today with the social networks, we must have a huge resistance to stress and be very strong in your guidelines. You must have the guts to put your ideas into action.”