Henry ready for Arsenal

Arsenal great Thierry Henry says he will not “back down from a challenge” if a vacancy arose to succeed Arsene Wenger as manager of the Gunners. However, Henry is desperate for his under-fire fellow Frenchman to have the “last word” on an Arsenal career that started when Wenger took charge of the north London club in 1996. Long-running speculation about Wenger's position at Arsenal intensified after the Gunners suffered a fourth successive defeat in all competitions, a 2-1 Premier League loss away to Brighton on Sunday - a result that left them a huge 13 points adrift of the top four. Former French forward Henry, currently working as an assistant to Belgium manager Roberto Martinez, was asked on Sky Sports if he would take the Arsenal job should the opportunity arise. “Listen, I'm a competitor, you don't back down from a challenge,” the 40-year-old replied. “We are speaking hypothetically before people jump ahead of everything, (but) I have never backed down from a challenge since I was young. “If I had listened to people who were talking about where I was going to be, I would not have been here. “When I arrived at Arsenal, they said to me, 'Why are you outside of the box, you will never score goals?' with my position being on the left or whatever it was. You don't back down from a challenge, you always think that you can. “When I came back to play for Arsenal, everybody, all my friends were saying, 'It can only tarnish your legacy, why are you going back there?',” Henry said. He then added: “If you love a place and they ask - I repeat, they ask - for help, you are always going to say yes. What I am saying to you is again, we are talking about hypothetical thoughts.” Having won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups under Wenger, Henry, Arsenal's all-time record goal scorer, said he was desperate for the veteran manager to decide his own future. “We are talking about shall he quit or not - I can never say that,” Henry explained. “I am not sitting on the fence, I can never say that. I have battled with this man, I can never say that. Do you understand what I mean? I can never say that. “What I don't want to see is what's happening to him, and I would like him to have the last word, whatever word it's going to be,” he added. NAMPA/AFP

Henry ready for Arsenal

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