How Wenger helped Manchester City rise – Bernstein
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- Mar 31, 2017
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Former Manchester City chairman, David Bernstein, has revealed that he met with Arsene Wenger to seek advice, on how to revive the club, when they were in the second division.
Bernstein took over as City chairman in 1998, when they had just been relegated to the third tier.
By the time he left the club in 2003, they were back in the Premier League.
“I had two hours with him at the Arsenal training ground on my own,” Bernstein told Reuters.
“He was fantastic… I went back and a lot of what happened at City was because of him. He was tremendous.”
Speaking ahead of City’s trip to Arsenal on Sunday, he said he would feel “very, very sorry” for Wenger if he “got a battering” in that match and still views him as a “fantastic manager.”
He added: “I have got a lot of sympathy for him. I’m really sad to see this sort of decline.”
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