Wenger is Coach of the Decade!

As statistics look to play such a large part in this award it's not just about the silverware you've won as a manager it seems but the outlay you've spent to achieve your clubs' standing playing a large part. Pretty damn impressive accolade though and at the same time pretty damning indictment of the state of English management with Hodgson the highest at 92nd. Where was the tax dodger? Did he scrape top 100?

Though tbf it does sound a very ahem french award lol. I'm sure if the award was called the 'ere son top, top banana, on me 'ead, get stuck in but he's not that type of player' award an Englishman may've featured more prominently.

The invincibles weren't bad either Julie ;)

It's good to see Wenger's fellow professionals recognising what Arsene Wenger has done for our club, I guess they realise that being a manager is a lot more complex than just winning trophies. Great stuff. That said I've always maintained that Alex Ferguson is the best "coach" in the world, whilst Arsene Wenger is the best "manager" in the world. Ol' Purple Nose is second to none when it comes to coaching a football team, but Wenger runs this club from top to bottom, and to keep us in the CL every year, whilst moving stadiums and keep the amazing youngsters coming through and playing beautiful football at the same time is no mean feat. Congratulations to Mr Wenger!

The truth is this last decade no coach has improved a football club more than Wenger at Arsenal. He has also made the improvement with constraints and kept the club competitive, you only need look at Liverpool to see what an achievement this is. He has taken us to the next level in terms of our standing in European club football, now its time to kick on and build on his achievements.

Compare the Arsenal of the end of the 20th century to now. We couldn't get out of our CL group in 1998 and 1999. Now we're flippant about being in the last stages. In 2000 we were playing to 38,000 and had only just purchased our own training ground having previously rented off of a university until the very lasy weeks of the 20th Century. The management of resources and the players he has brought on have all been mentioned above, but if you accept that Red Nose did most of his progressive work in the 90s (and has excellently fed off that work in the last decade) it's true to say no manager has done more to transform an entire club this decade than Wenger. As with Feguson in the 90s, the true fruits of that groundwork will survive well into the next decade too.

You only have to look at Southampton to see how a new stadium can go pretty pear for a club.

UnfortunateLY I don't think Arsene will truely be appreciated until he's no longer with us.

He deserved to win a few more trophies in that period. If it were not for abramovich or in my oppinion Eduardo's injury im sure we would of won 1-3 more titles, unlucky or luckless in finals to Galatasaray, Barcelona, Liverpool & Chelsea. No point thinking to much about what if though.

No.10, they went up the first season they moved, then they went straight down for a few years, before coming up again in 2001.

Arry: Dunno what your talkin abart Delta, Id hardly say we sell used cars, I mean 1 careful owner stacking it on the M25 hardly means its been used does it?" "Any how whilst your here Ive got these genuine David Bikram shirts for sale interested?"

Lot of idiots are sneering at this award saying wtf has he won recently. I'm surprised at the sheer good sense of this award-the obvious choices would be Ferguson or Mourinho because, as EVERYONE knows (because it's written in stone), in sport, the ONLY thing to look at is how many trophies you've won. Well, anyone looking from outside with a clear objective head, an intelligent understanding of history & context, will look at what AW has done at Arsenal and shake their heads in amazement. Quite simply: NO OTHER FOOTBALL MANAGER HAS DONE WHAT HE HAS MANAGED TO DO ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY WITH THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO HIM. You simply can't find a comparable example anywhere in the sport. You can find similar examples but not equivalent ones-not to the same degree and extent to what he has managed to do. Wenger has made Arsenal into a football giant on the global stage. He's made huge swaths of humanity turn their heads and take a look at a club (and sometimes at a country whose football they had previously had no interest in) they'd never heard of--and become not just admirers but supporters. I've tried to think of an equivalent of AW in South America or the USA, the two regions I know best - and I can't. Not in any sport. He's a very very unique man and sportsman. Ferguson is an extraordinary manager with strong gifts and far more successful. But he has not transformed Manchester United in the way Wenger has transformed Arsenal. Nor has he been limited by resources in the way AW has been. What's distinct about AW is that it's not easy to label or describe what he's done-it's a complex, multilayered story that words like "achievement" don't really suffice. Precisely because AW is so unique in what he's done at Arsenal & because that achievement has been so dramatic and global in its reach, because his impact goes beyond simple trophy counts, he fully deserves this award.

The award was truly something that wasn't obvious. The criteria used in the award seemed to measure things which are not quantifiable. That is a fantastic post jaelle.

Agree with all of you, great points above, nothing to add, just this: all hats off now!!

When was the last time he sent a team into financial ruin like Pompey? Wenger rules.

If winning a cup with a tiny team was a prerequisite then Juande Ramos should've been in with a shout.

Look, I'm not being nasty, but Wenger has basically turned a winning team into a team that never wins trophies. All things being equal Ferguson is the best; let's not forget United hadn't won the title for two decades when he arrived. Not disputing Wenger is up there. But the very best? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Ferguson IS the greatest manager of all time. Wenger would like to be.

Tony Rocky Numbnuts - it's Coach of the Decade, not of All Time.

Great manager but there no way EVER hes ahead of Jose or Sir Alex. I'd place Guardiola way ahead of him also, his achievements destroy Wengers in a quarter of the time. Hes still top 5 though, hes done amazing for your club despite trophys drying up

Guardiola ahead of Wenger? LMAO!!

Mourinho is undoubtedly a great manager, but whether he can build a lasting legacy or whether he can take a team with limited resources and make them great will always be questions that hang over him until he shows the bottle to take on such a job. For now, he'll always go to a new club with big resources, transform them for 2-3 years, then quit before he gets found out. It's notable he rarely leaves clubs in a good condition, he usually leaves ageing squads. He's a great coach and I really want to see him test himself properly and build a legacy somewhere the way AW and Red Nose have. To build a great team that stays together for 5-6 years and then to replace them when they are past it and build another one. That's the challenge I'd like to see him take on, it's down to whether he has the bottle to do it.

ptv- point noted and acknowledged but the way Mourinho has kept club hopping since - Chelsea, Inter and Madrid without staying long enough to transform them is a drawback. Why did he leave Chelsea? Because he wanted more big players at big prices and resented Abramovich's intervention. Where is Chelsea today? In the need of another big financial doping injection. The players he brought to Inter are very good like Eto'o and Sneijder but are not the future of Inter so the club remains in a worse position two years since he joined them. He is doing ok at Real but till now has done only what Pellegrini did - an impressive second behind Barcelona. Moreover, Mourinho is already clashing with Perez and Valdano about further big signings - that is on top of the already extravagantly expensive squad RM already have. We all have different tastes as far as managers go I guess so for me, JM seems like a talented mercenary who only thinks about himself and not the club he is employed by.

Still think he needs tactical help on the pitch though.

Anyone who thinks Eboue=GOD clearly has a very skewed view of things.