Arsene Wenger has 'no interest' in writing book on Arsenal as Mauricio Pochettino has with Tottenham

Arsene Wenger said that he would not write a book about his day-to-day football management, ahead of facing Tottenham Hotspur and Mauricio Pochettino, who has just done exactly that.

Pochettino has just brought out a ghost-written diary of the 2016-17 season called Brave New World, providing an unusually frank and detailed insight into his management style as well as conversations with his players and staff.

On Saturday afternoon Pochettino will take his Tottenham team to the Emirates to face Arsenal in the north London derby.

Wenger, asked about the Pochettino book at his Thursday morning press conference, said that he had not read it. And that, in the same position, he would not do a tell-all book on a team he still managed.

“Because I have no time, not because it is not interesting,” he explained, when asked why he had not found time to read it yet. “And because I have a good experience of managing. Look, I have nothing against it. I am open-minded to it. But I have not much time in my schedule.”

Wenger was then asked whether he would do his own behind the scenes diary, and he said that he would not want to do a book that was not candid enough, as it would be “impossible” to tell the whole truth.

“Not at the moment,” he said. “Because I don’t like to talk and not tell the truth. As long as you are in work, you cannot really tell what is going on. Just to sell a book? I have no interest. If it is to tell really what I think about the game and what I think about some aspects of our game, I will do it but at the moment it is impossible.”