but as the club's chief executive ivan gazidis explained to the media this afternoon, he is not goingall and he was always true to that ambition. and incredibly he achieved that with arsenal's invincibles season. i'm joined achieved that with arsenal's invincibles season. i'mjoined by martin keown. what is your reaction to the news? it feels like a sad day and the end of an era and anyone who has worked with arsene wenger will say it was an honour to work with him. a great man first and foremost and he loved football to the nth degree and arsenal to go with it, and i'm indebted to him as a player because he got the best out of me. simplicity in the way he lived his life and he took that on to the football field. one of the all—time greats, incredible manager and an incredible man to be around. was this the right time for him? of course, you like to think of the great leaders, they find the right time to go, and maybe he stayed on just a little bit longer, but you can forgive him that. he loved the clu b can forgive him that. he loved the club and he was emotionally attached and he cou

that because to work out who is coming m, because to work out who is coming in, even busy this —— ivan gazidiseeds to find the right man to come in and replace arsene wenger. it is not as difficult as it might have been, maybe ten years ago, when all of those successes were coming, and this is now an opportunity, they may be finishing sixth place in the table, to build on that next season, and arsene wenger leaves the club in and arsene wenger leaves the club in an incredible position. onto the rest of the day's sports news. fulham have moved into the second place in the championship after beating fellow promotion hopefuls millwall. after a lively but goalless first half, ryan sessegnon put fulham ahead before two fabulous goals sealed the victory. the first from midfielder kevin mcdonald from 25 yards, and then aleksandar mitrovic made it 3—0 just before the whistle. his 13th goal in as many games sincejoining fulham on loan. fulham are two points ahead of cardiff in 3rd but they have two games in hand. millwall stay 6th in the final play off place. gloucester are through to the final of the

the club's chief exectutive ivan gazidis has just finished speaking at a press conference and it wasnew ambition. the ambition notjust a win but to win while achieving perfection, to make art out of football, and he was always brave enough to be true to that extraordinary ambition. incredibly, he achieved it with arsenal's invincibles season. two players synonomous with different wenger sides — robert pires and ian wright — both gave us their memories of working with the outgoing arsenal manager. he made me think about football in such a meticulous way that every single thing i was doing that wasn't right is harming me. and everything that i was doing that was the right thing to do, in respect of sleep, drinking water, training, resting, was benefiting me. i genuinely believed it, he made me think that. i thought like that until the end of my career. commentator: bergkamp has gone to the right, ljungberg. perez! it's difficult to win the premier league because you have to fight against manchester city, manchester united, chelsea, liverpool, tottenham. when you won the title but unbea

behind the scenes we know that the chief executive ivan gazidis is been planning for this departure for a long time he's brought in a new head of recruitment a new contract negotiator and you had a football relations all of these new arrivals basically signaling the end of all some vendors right now also know the club are modernizing the club are going forward the only thing left really to change was the manager. and i think you'll see in the next few weeks the tributes are going to be pouring in for us and i don't think his legacy is going to remain. think his legacy is going to be tarnished i think what he's done for the club think this football will never be repeated. alex ferguson is kind of on the part of us and angered soames of what he's achieved and trophies and silverware and everything like that but also and then go obviously in the legend of the english game but also and chris if only days that what people are talking about as a potential think. well she names have been mentioned massimo alegria from the events of this very successful in europe this season diego simeone a ars