Arsene Wenger has said he still has a desire to win at Arsenal, even after over 17 years and 999 games in charge of the north London club.
The Frenchman will take charge of the Gunners for the 1000th time against Chelsea on Saturday, 6382 days after he was appointed manager.
“It makes you feel ‘where did the time go?’” Wenger told Arsenal Player. “It looks to me like I started yesterday – I can’t believe it is such a long time.
“Why? Because you’re always focused on looking forward to the next game and when you look back you think I made quite a distance there.
“Despite that, your only interest is the next game, our drug is the next game, the hope for the next game, the desire to win the next one.”
And the longest-serving manager in Arsenal’s history still thinks there’s something to learn from each game that comes.
“You learn more from the lost games than the games won,” Wenger said. “Certainly because you go into deeper analysis, you question yourself more, you question the players more and you learn basically the most from the higher the level goes up, the more you see the limitations of your team and players.”
