Wenger: Players don't have to be friends

• limpper

  12 Mar 09, 18:13

  

   

  Arsenal defender Kolo Toure admits he'll never be friends with William Gallas.

  Toure said: "Our relationship [with Gallas] has improved, but it’s just a professional relationship. Once we are on the pitch we try to keep a professional attitude and to communicate.

  "We never got on well together. You see, I’m friends with [Johan] Djourou, with [Emmanuel] Eboue, with Gael [Clichy], but it’s not the same with William.

  "It’s the same within every company, you can’t be friends with everybody."

  On his own future, Toure told setanta.com: "Many problems occurred and made me want to move on.

  “Is it because of Gallas? Not at all. At the start of the season I didn’t play a lot and I felt that it was the right moment to go.

  "There were some problems between the players, but this must remain an internal matter because I’m not the kind of man who creates controversies.

  "I have changed my mind and I hope I will stay at the club, for sure."

• omgukilledkenny

  12 Mar 09, 18:15

  Like andy cole and teddy sheringham...

• a-Lost-9uY

  12 Mar 09, 23:54

  Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:

  Like andy cole and teddy sheringham...

  
  Like Roy Keane & player Alf-Inge Haland of Man City..

• stellazio

  12 Mar 09, 23:59

  this one old news leh..

• iceFatboy

  13 Mar 09, 10:18

  but what started it?

• limpper

  13 Mar 09, 17:20

  this is not a old news, he said this after the roma match

• omgukilledkenny

  14 Mar 09, 01:17

  Wenger: Players don't have to be friends

  

  Arsene Wenger insists it does not matter if defensive duo Kolo Toure and William Gallas are not friends as long they can play together on the pitch.

  In an exclusive interview with setanta.com, Kolo Toure revealed on Wednesday that he did not consider former captain Gallas a friend as he did other team-mates.

  But boss Wenger believes the pair’s personal relationship should have no bearing on their ability to do a job for Arsenal.

  "What is important is that when you are professionals, you play together," said Wenger.

  "To be professional is to do what it takes for your team to be successful, not more than that - it does not mean that you go to paradise together.

  "You have big examples of players who did not get on very well, but that does not mean they cannot play together.

  "In football, you can take a Russian and an American, at the highest period of tension, and they can play very well together because sport demands the analysis of a situation in a fraction of a second, and both can have that even if they do not speak.

  "The most important thing is the big players respect the game.

  "They put the respect for the game at a higher level than any other situation - if the game needs me to give you the ball now, even if I do not like you, then I give you the ball."

• Scania N113CRB l0v3r

  14 Mar 09, 08:15

  Lolx.... for Toure