Arsene Wenger has ever been one of the few managers out there who have gained a reputation of being finest soccer minds capable of exploring the brightest talent right in their early ages. This versatile quality of a manager is the core for every successful mentor of the game and Arsenal manager is not an exception. But how does he do that, or what qualities he looks for in any new player that clicks his mind, he talked about these insides of contemporary soccer in New York where he went to attend Emirates Business Breakfast. He talked about two core components he always looks before finalizing anyone for his team and they are: passion and drive. Yes, if he finds someone to have great passion for the sport and can go higher in his career, he wastes no time in recruiting him for the Holloway side.
Actually, success in the last premier league season lined him up along with other great mentors hence this season is even more aspiring for the 64-year-old French. He talked about the kind of ambitious players he aspires these days and said, “There is the kid who battles with himself, the real champions, the guy who is driven by an inner motivation and has a consistent desire to be better because he has to be better,” he said in quotes reported on Arsenal’s official website.
“The second guy battles with others. He wants to show others he is better than them and he is ready to go out and show that. The third guy is a different case, he wants to be respected by others.
“At the top level of competition you find these types of people. They have a mixture of the three characteristics but there is a dominant one there. I personally am inner driven. You want people who are consistently driven, you want ones like dogs who always want more. We try to identify that and try to make them stars.”
The Invincibles are in the US for a friendly with New York Red Bulls this weekend and have to follow a tight schedule ahead of upcoming English season thereafter. Wenger, in other words, carped the hefty schedule his players are going through especially when there are many players who have had been with their national sides in the Brazilian world cup. Added further about time being wasted on travelling, he said, “But for purely football reasons, the best thing to do is stay and not travel too much because of the time you waste and the jet-lag you suffer is not ideal.
“This season is a post-World Cup year and very difficult because the time is very short between the final, which was on July 13, and the start of the new season on August 16.”