Swansea vs Arsenal preview: Wenger still hungry for success

Before Saturday's clash with in-form Swansea Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger insists he remains as hungry as ever to succeed. The French manager will celebrate 17 years at the helm of Arsenal this weekend, a spell which added seven major trophies to the club hall of fame. However, Wenger has been under a great deal of pressure during the last few seasons as he was often criticized for an alleged lack of ambition in the transfer market. Wenger concedes that the stress of life as a football manager can take its toll, but the 63-year-old Frenchman has no intention of retiring any time soon. Wenger said in a new book 'The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders': "The biggest pressure you have is to drive home on a Saturday night having lost a game and to think that some people will cry because you lost that game. That is the biggest pressure, to let people down. That's a big responsibility and I feel the longer you stay at a club, unfortunately, the bigger the responsibility becomes. What keeps me going is my love for the game, for doing the job I do. I have that desire to be as good as I can be, refusing to be average. Unfortunately, sometimes in the job I feel very average when I don't deliver results but there is something in every individual that pushes him to try and be excellent. That is my petrol." Keeping the fans happy is not easy but keeping the footballers happy can be even more difficult. Wenger added: "One of the difficult things of being a manager is to sack 14 people every Friday morning and then re-employ them on a Monday morning and say, 'Right, we start again - I take you back on board'. When you have 25 players and on a Friday you filter them out, you turn those people into the unemployed and their sense of belonging diminishes. Somebody who doesn't play or who is injured feels useless - he feels in danger. Therefore it is important the club shows respect to players who are not in situations where they can show how good they are." Swansea vs Arsenal on Saturday should be a spectacular game between two teams that like to play attacking football, here are the odds at Bet365: Swansea win - 23/10 Draw - 5/2 Arsenal win - 13/10