The Premier League Hall of Fame has officially honoured Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger as its inaugural managers.

The duo won 16 Premier League titles between them across respective long-term spells with Manchester United and Arsenal.

Ferguson is the most accomplished manager in the competition’s history with 13 of their championships. He is the first manager to have achieved the Premier League’s Triple Title on two separate occasions.

Ferguson said: “I’m truly delighted to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame. It’s an honour when you receive recognition like this. However, it’s not just about me as a person. It’s about the job at Manchester United and the bond we had over many years, so I’m also proud for the club, the staff and my players.

“My job was to send the fans home happy. United’s history and my own expectations were the things that drove me, and I then had to try and develop all my players with the same expectations and make sure we could go out and achieve them.

“I feel Arsene is a very worthy inductee as he transformed Arsenal Football Club fantastically. They became a tough team to compete with and we both wanted to win, which motivated us further. Through the years since retirement, we’d go for dinner together in a little restaurant he knows well in Switzerland. He is a really interesting man and I enjoy his company, but it is still my job to pick the wine!”

👑 The greatest.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been inducted in the @PremierLeague Hall of Fame 👏#MUFC || #PL

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) March 29, 2023

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Wenger arrived in England as one of the Premier League’s first foreign coaches in 1996, swiftly proving sceptics wrong by converting Arsenal into title winners and influencing the culture of English football with his scouting and culinary skills.

At Arsenal, he won three Premier League titles, including an unbeaten ‘Invincibles season in 2003/04.

Wenger said: “I am very grateful to have been selected for the Premier League Hall of Fame. We always wanted to give something special to the fans and when you have players capable of remarkable things, the most important thing for me is the obligation of perfection.

“I’d like to be known as someone who loved Arsenal, who respected the values of the club and left it in a position where it can grow and become even bigger.

“To share this with Sir Alex is a great honour for me. It’s like two boxers, you fight like mad and go the distance together. At the end of the day, you have respect and it will be a great opportunity to meet with him, share a good bottle of wine and memories of our old battles.”

🥁 Our latest inductee to the Premier League Hall of Fame…

It’s a special entry, Gooners 🙌

🏆 One gold trophy
❤️ One Arsene Wenger pic.twitter.com/iNsBbe1A9t

— Arsenal (@Arsenal) March 29, 2023

In addition to Ferguson and Wenger, there are 16 other inductees in the Premier League Hall of Fame.

When the Hall of Fame was established in 2021, Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry were the first two individuals to be inducted. During that year, they were followed by David Beckham, Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, Frank Lampard, Dennis Bergkamp, and Steven Gerrard.

Inductees for 2022 were Ian Wright, Peter Schmeichel, Paul Scholes, Didier Drogba, Vincent Kompany, Patrick Vieira, and Sergio Aguero.

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Erik ten Hag defended Antony and denied claims that his Manchester United teammates were annoyed by his play-acting.

With an £84 million transfer from Ajax to Old Trafford last summer, Antony became the club’s second-most expensive player ever, just behind Paul Pogba.

And after the winger scored in each of his first three games for the Red Devils it seemed that it was money well spent.

He hasn’t scored in the league since, and he hasn’t given up an assist either.

Many people have criticized the Brazilian international’s performances, most recently Arsenal veteran Ian Wright. Some people think it’s time for Ten Hag to bench the player, but the Red Devils manager insists that the player is an essential member of his squad.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference ahead of United’s Carabao Cup semi-final clash against Nottingham Forest, Ten Hag said: ‘When he’s playing, the team is winning. That already gives a message of how well he is performing.

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‘He can do better, I see space for improvement. For instance, and I think also you know this, we want him to be more direct and be more involved. But, as I said, the team is performing better if he is on the pitch.‘That’s a good thing, that’s a good base to build further. I think he has already made an improvement. In his first three [league] games, he scored three goals.

‘Now he was scoring against Everton, he was scoring against Charlton, so also that fact, he has an impact. But I think with his capabilities, with his talents, he can do even more. But as I said, I think he has [made] a good contribution in the team.’

After Antony was spotted arguing with Bruno Fernandes during the 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on Wednesday, Ten Hag also addressed if there was a gap between Antony and his teammates.

He said: ‘I think that can happen. They are both players who play with the heart and, when they bring that in the game, they are on their best so it’s always a kind of balance.

‘And always between players, sometimes emotions flare up but I think, in the second moment, they are already good with each other so that is not a problem. I think definitely the players are not frustrated with him.’

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Ian Wright believes Chelsea star, Raheem Sterling will be unhappy with the current tactical set-up at Chelsea under Graham Potter ahead of the Arsenal clash.

The England international has had trouble contributing lately, scoring just one goal in his last nine Chelsea games.

Potter has been forced to dismiss suggestions that Sterling is operating as a wing-back in his system, and says that Chelsea’s £50 million summer signing is not overburdened with defensive responsibility.

Wright, on the other hand, believes Potter is unable to get the best out of Sterling and that opponents are exposing Chelsea’s defensive vulnerability in wide areas.

‘It’s one of the confusing things what Graham Potter is doing at the moment, I can’t get my head around it,’ Wright said on the Kelly and Wrighty Show ahead of Chelsea’s clash with Arsenal.

‘When I did the analysis on the game [Chelsea’s defeat to Brighton], the full-back area, Brighton just absolutely tore them to shreds because you’ve got Pulisic and Sterling who are supposedly meant to come and try to help Chalobah and Cucurella.

‘It wasn’t happening and I couldn’t understand it.

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‘There’s no way he [Sterling] can be happy playing that role, especially when you look at what he’s done at City, and the team he was playing in, everything was really concentrated on offence for him.

‘It must be really strange and tough for him to go to a new club and have to play in a position like that. I hope they can sort that out soon for him.’

‘The thing is with it, the way they played it was so disorganised,’ said Wright. ‘I know they’ve lost one in 10 but the way they played the other day, it’s not good form.

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