Former Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has urged fans to keep showing their back to the club as they continue to rebuild under Mikel Arteta. The Gunners have not qualified for the Champions League since the 2015-16 season and during the past two campaigns have finished eighth in the Premier League. Wenger had a disruptive kinship with Arsenal fans towards the end of his largely successful near 22-year tenure which ended in 2018, and current incumbent Arteta – who took the reins in December 2019 following Unai Emery ’ s exit – has besides faced criticism from sections of supporters .

Arteta ’ s side sit fifth in the table and are unbeaten in 10 games across all competitions, however, and Wenger has called on fans to stay behind the Spaniard and his team through thick and flimsy .
Speaking at the universe premiere of ‘ Arsene Wenger : invincible ’ in London on Monday even, the 72-year-old told the PA news representation : “ My advice is good to the fans to continue to support the club, to Arteta, to continue to try and gain the momentum to keep this going .

“ They have invested a bunch of money and hopefully some potential in the team and ( I hope they ) continue to keep that momentum in the team. ”
Wenger won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including doubles in 1998 and 2002, and was in charge of a record 823 matches during his reign .
however, after the be active from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006, Arsenal lacked funds and struggled to remain title contenders, despite staying in the top four every year until Wenger ’ randomness penultimate condition .

“ It changed completely the landscape ( the move from Highbury ) because we had limited resources to maintain the club at the circus tent level, ” the Frenchman said .
“ For me personally, it ’ sulfur my biggest accomplishment at the club, to remain – people speak lone when you won – but we were three times second, five times third, six times fourth and that consistency is the most difficult with the express resources that we had at that time and I ’ m very gallant of that. ”

His bequest besides includes an unbeaten title-winning season in 2003-04 which forms the subject of the documentary film, which is released on Thursday, and with a wry smile Wenger admitted he hopes no-one will match his feat .
“ Look, we all want to do things in life that cipher else does, ” he said .
“ So let ’ s not be hypocritical, of course it is. But for me it is a good to do the subcontract american samoa well as you can do it, to have not one single moment of helplessness during the season and at the decisive moments in the games, the players don ’ triiodothyronine give up and they keep their focus and they refuse to lose. ”
Arteta, besides in attendance at the the film premier on Monday even, played under Wenger for the Gunners from 2011-2016 and says the Frenchman had a massive influence on his decisiveness to become a director .
“ He is the reason why I am a director, ” Arteta told PA.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (centre) celebratesWenger’s (centre) legacy also includes an unbeaten title-winning season in 2003-04 (Sean Dempsey/PA) “ When I joined the club I started to see how he could understand, how significant values were for the team and for the baseball club, to be consistent and then he was actually supportive the sidereal day I told him I started to study and do my badges .
“ He was constantly very supportive because he believed that one day, probably it ’ sulfur been a little bite sooner than expected, but I had what I had to have to become a director. ”
: : Arsene Wenger and Mikel Arteta were speaking at the populace premier of ‘ Arsene Wenger : invincible ’ at the Finsbury Park Picturehouse on Monday evening .