Arsène Wenger

Interesting and challenging, but I was so passionate, you know.

I didn't count the hours.

I worked on exercises.

I worked morning, afternoon, evening.

At the time, I was scouting as well.

So sometimes I traveled three, four hours by car to watch a youth team game and come back at night and in the morning on the training ground.

So

It was a different time where it was more all down to your own initiative, you know.

Today it's all more structured.

At the time, football was not rich.

So the quality of a club depended more on the individual initiative.

Because I felt that the mental aspect of a young player is very important and I thought I can help them to develop, you know, because once you're 18, 19, it's important to push yourself as far as you can.

And I wanted to understand better what is going on in the brain of a young boy who has a possibility to make a career.

And what we did quite well, we forced them every day to analyze that day.

I forced them every day to say, how did you feel today physically?

How was your concentration?

How do you feel tactically we did?

How did you think you did?

So even when I meet them today, sometimes they still tell me that helped them a lot in their life to think about what they did and if they did well or not.

Yes, because in Monaco we had a problem on that front.