Arsene Wenger: Manuel Pellegrini can cope with Pep Guardiola rumours

To a certain extent I also agree about the theory that, despite what Arsene Wenger said about the club being careful, the Chilean will probably be thrown straight back into the starting line up for the crunch clash with Premier League rivals Man City on Monday. “They are going through a hard spell, but they are not in a relegation battle”.

“We have a chance to knock them out”.

‘We have to be inspired by the result against Bayern, the same type of team. We just wanted to give everyone a quick visual reminder of how lucky we are as Arsenal fans to follow a club that doesn’t really do the whole manager-go-round thing that is all the rage these days. An exciting one. We’re ambitious’.

Arsenal won the first leg at home 2-1 before losing at the Nou Camp 1-3.

Manchester United were the last team to win the league with 80 points back in 2011 but Chelsea needed 87 points to lift the trophy last season.

We have never been beaten [comprehensively] and we were sometimes unlucky as well. I don’t forget that.

Arsenal, who are second in the league table, will hope to open a four-point gap between themselves and third-placed Manchester City with a victory on Monday.

Arsenal’s tendency to play possession-based, attractive passing football in many ways make them the most logical fit for the former Barcelona manager-who famously employed the “tiki-taka” style of play at the Camp Nou-as they already have that basis from which he can work.

The attacker of Arsenal has been left without depth given the injuries to Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck and Wenger is now keen on providing competition for Giroud.

“It is not trust in a negative way when I say all of them”. Will I make the decision rather than Alexis? Yes. Sanchez injured his hamstring on 29 November and has not played since. You want him to be keen to play.