Arsenal hero Emmanuel Petit is convinced manager Arsene Wenger is fed up with the job.
Wenger looked broken as he surveyed the damage of his side's defeat by Manchester City, which has only increased the likelihood he will leave at the end of the season.
Petit, a member of Arsenal's 1998 double winning squad, told Paddy Power: “I see him on the bench, he looks tired physically, you can see the pressure on his face, the frustration. Every time he has to answer the same questions about himself.
“It's been 20 years now. The pressure he's been living under for the past few years is amazing. I'm looking at it from the outside and I'm thinking, 'How can he live with that sort of pressure every single week?'
“I have the feeling that he is tired of it. That's my opinion. He's tired. He's probably angry about not being given the consideration for what he's done for Arsenal and the Premier League.
“But Arsene knows better than anyone that, in football, what you have done, what you have won is the past and when you won trophies like he did in the first few years that he set the level of expectation very high.
“I don't know what will happen at the end of the season, but I will always support Arsene for what he did for me back in the days at Monaco and also at Arsenal. I know the link I can have with him.
“But when you have a friend, a good friend, you expect them to tell you the truth and to be honest with you and to tell you the truth even when you disagree or don't like the truth.
“That's something I would expect from my best friend. 'Be honest with me even if you know I won't like it'. I think Arsene knows the reality of the situation. I am sure that he is upset with former players talking about Arsenal and Arsene, the way the club is managing the players, the frustration with former players and how unhappy he is with what they say in public.
“But if Arsene is honest with himself and looks himself in the mirror then he knows we are telling the truth. We don't say it because we want to kick Arsenal. The way we say it is because we love Arsenal and Arsene."
Source: tribalfootball.com