Emmanuel Petit

But yeah, because he had that back four, as I said before, but then he just implemented different players.

Obviously, look at Emmanuel Petit.

He turned him from a midfield player into a holding midfield player.

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but we weren't challenging for leagues we were long since that I think we had a good run in 91-92 at the end but we couldn't make up the distance and Leeds became league champions but Arsene Wenger took over and we went on a spending spree that summer So in came Mark Overmars for about 7 million from iX.

Emmanuel Petit came in from Monaco and he was being brought in as apparently a left back.

But Arsene Wenger had other ideas.

He also brought in Gilles Grimondi from Monaco.

At the end of my career, at 35 years old, I was running six miles a game, and I was a sweeper.

And, uh, I'm sure, and I checked, Emmanuel Petit and Petit, we are, we're running eight miles a game and never asked for a rotation.

They wanted to play 38 games in the Premier League, plus European, uh, games with Arsenal, plus, uh, the, the, the t- tournament with national team.

What is that thing about players just wanting to rest? Play.

Frenchman, think Frenchman.

I did, Emmanuel Petit was someone that I did think, I don't think he's top 10.

I don't think he's top 10.

I don't think he's even in Arsenal's top five Frenchmen.

Everyone talks about the science and how they're definitely fitter and better than any of those players.

But actually, is it a mentality thing? Is it just that you know that the manager's got five substitutions, you know that you've got big, big squads, and actually you don't have to be at your level every single game, like maybe a Manu Petit and a Patrick Vieira would have had to be.

I think also in Arsenal's situation, and I'm not digging Arsenal, but where you've got this embarrassment of riches of players and you're Marslu Skelly and you've put in eight, nine, 10 out of 10 performances in your first few games, and then you're not playing in probably the most difficult game of the season so far.

Arguably Chelsea, but I'd say away at Brighton, the way they've been playing, it's probably the most difficult game Arsenal have had so far.

So our low knees, particularly Harvey Elliott, just can't seem to catch a break.

Carlos Cobran the man who was influential in bringing Harvey Elliott to Valencia has now been sacked which I don't know what that means for Harvey Elliott but the man who fought to bring him there is no longer the coach so what a new head coach is going to do well we're going to have to wait and see so let's talk a little bit about Emmanuel Petit believing that Liverpool and Manchester United have quite simply in his words no hope this season he went on to say they're conceding too many goals just like Chelsea but But I was even less convinced about both clubs what they did in the transfer market.

They're missing players and it's hard to see how they can be favoured to finish in the top four, especially together.

They might fight over that last place after Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea.