Arsene Wenger offers thoughts on life after Arsenal and why he hasn’t been back

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Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that leaving the Gunners after so many years there was like waking up from a coma, as per BeIn Sports.

The Frenchman also said he hasn’t been back to the club yet because he wanted to give himself a clean break and distance following his exit.

He said: “I wanted to take a complete distance. I haven’t been back at the club. I lived like somebody in a coma, who woke up and saw something different in life than just my club, my game, my work.

“I needed longer than I thought to take a distance with what I did before and really let it settle. I did conferences, travelling, charity. When I wake up in my mind, it’s still straight away football.”

TBR’s View – Hardly surprising Wenger needed a break after pouring everything into Arsenal

Perhaps one of the major differences between Wenger and his great rival Sir Alex Ferguson is that he was never going to walk away from football because it was such a dominant presence in his life and he’d be lost without it.

That seems to be the case – he really needed time to step back and adjust to life without Arsenal and without football.

He poured everything into the club for so many years and it has taken this time for Wenger to stop being simply so synonymous with Arsenal.

It will be strange to see him at another club – if he does eventually make another move – but he will give it his everything again if that’s the course of action he chooses.