If you'd asked me which of the players from the first ten years of Arsene Wenger would go on to have a coaching career at the club, I'm pretty sure there would have been a lot of names I'd have gone with before Freddie Ljungberg. Maybe a case of judging a book by its cover, or by its Calvin Klein bulge, but of all those men who pulled on the shirt, the Swede is now the closest of all of them to the top job at Arsenal. Which isn't to ignore Steve Bould, by the way, he's spent the last seven years as assistant manager to Wenger, and then a season alongside Unai Emery, but Freddie was brought in by the Frenchman, and synonymous with the titles and doubles he brought to the club. He's had an...
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