The former karseneal star reveals that he got to teams up to Thierry Henry and used black eyes from his teams
An ex -Arsenal star raised the lid on the aggregate atmosphere in the Invincible team of Tarsene Wenger – and revealed as eleven squares by the legend of the Cannonieri Thierry Henry during a particularly heated clash.
The French manager supervised one of the best eras of the North London Club during his 22-year-old mandate, with the Wenger teams who reached two double-victory seasons and their unparalleled season in 2003-2004.
At the beginning of the 2000s, the team with Pumptte with the players that the names would go to the folklore of Arsenal, including Henry and his compatriot Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and Martin Koewn.
But as the former Ala David Bentley revealed in a recent appearance on the podcast, with the competitive spirit of the team, a combat attitude has arrived that saw the players even hit with each other after the training sessions.
Bentley arrived through the Arsenal Academy before connecting with the senior part in 2001.
Although the player has spent a number of seasons on loan – first in Norwich City, the at Blackburn Rovers – his entry into the most crusted dressing room was the baptism of fire, with the Than -Tenger pushed into an atmosphere heated in the Co’s Colney training field.
Arsenal experienced the period of triumph in the early stages of the mandate of Ursa Wenger – in part to an ultra competitive atmosphere
David Bentley (center) has arrived through the Arsenal Academy to take a place in the first team
But what he found next year of the house was a locker room full of incisive personalities (in 2004)
‘Talk about personality. No possibility, “Bentley told Undr the podcast cos. ‘You have the Ray Parlour – He loves him, crazy and beautiful man.
‘The You Got Got Martin Kooeown, Dennis Bergkamp is an animal – would have started the c *** from everyone.
‘Giovanni Van Bruckhorst – I had eaten ágainst and came away with black eyes and bloody eyes, I used it for life.
‘Fight. Pascal Cygan against Kolo Toure was the best struggle I’ve ever seen on the training field. Two animals that go each other. To try to break them, we needed the whole team. Vieira Stamping on me. ‘
But Bentley was fast to admit a moment of his own full -blooded full -blood, when he went on tiptoe with the superstar of France Thierry Henry.
The couple was playing against each other in a highly competitive training game of Seven-a-mejide organized by Wenger and Bentley description how, during a heated exchange, he saw the red with Henry.
“I squaded to Thierry Henry, I torn myself from the gloves, (he said)” come on, let’s go. “What they did – Wenger, (assistant manager) Pat Rice and coaching staff – was put out of seven next to each day.
‘The locker room was more worried to win the seven asids tournaments than on Saturday’s match. It was a hell for the skin and it was just platelets and fighting. Especially in the last game, that’s where I had to square up to Thierry, I bless him. I also have a good guest! ‘
Thierry Henry was at the center of Bentley’s wrath during the individually exuberant training session
Martin Keown was another player who had a close encounter with Bentley during the ES period in the field together
Bentley also remembered a close encounter with Keown, after creating the star beyond his age.
“The worst thing I could have done,” Bentley added. #The ball then entered, and I protected her, graduated on my neck and threw me from behind.
“My shirt has been torn and I’m going” Gaffer! Pat! “And they would say” Go ahead! “
Bentley was adamant that the high intensity atmosphere was fundamental for the unbeaten success of Arsenal and over 20 years later, the current manager Mikel Arte who appeared eager to create his own unique culture within his team that chased the title.
Gunners’ current manager who have raised his eyebrows with his unusual coaching methods, who included the game you will never walk alone in training sessions before Liverpool and taking illusionists of delicacies to choose the pockets of his players at a team dinner to teach them the promptness lesson.
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