Thiery Henry rejects Arsenal for TV job!
France and Arsenal legend Thierry
Henry ended his association with the English Premier League club on Tuesday
preferring to focus on his burgeoning media career. The 38-year-old former
striker — part of the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winning teams — could have
coached the Gunners’ under-18 side but declined the offer when Arsene Wenger
told him
he would have to give up his lucrative Sky Sports TV contract for
which he is reportedly paid £4 million ($5.2m, 4.7m euros) a year. Henry,
Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer with 174 goals in 254 appearances from 1999
to 2007, had been working with Arsenal youth players as part of his UEFA A
Licence course. Another former Arsenal legend, Tony Adams, 49, will take the
role with the under-18s.
Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry Adams’s former central-defensive partner
Steve Bould is Wenger’s assistant manager while another ex-player, Freddie
Ljungberg, will work with the under-16s. Henry must now find a team to coach to
complete his Pro Licence. Reviews of Henry’s performances as a pundit for Sky
have been largely critical, but critics agreed that he was far better on the
BBC during Euro 2016. Noted sports TV critic Giles Smith said in The Times
newspaper on Tuesday: “One puzzle we’re nowhere nearer solving: how can the
same Thierry Henry who is so open and engaging on the BBC be such a lump of wet
wool on Sky Sports?”
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