John Jensen is something of a cult hero at Arsenal, and the midfielder has hailed Arsène Wenger as the best manager in the world.

The midfielder made 102 appearances for Arsenal, famously scoring just once, but departed shortly before Wenger arrived in north London.

Nonetheless, the former Denmark international has said he has had the opportunity to watch the Arsenal manager in training, and feels he is the best manager in the world.

“Wenger has got to be, for me, the best manager in the world,” Jensen told SkySports.

“By far better than Mourinho, even though he hasn’t got the results against him. I’ve seen him in training, and I really love to see Arsenal play. It’s entertaining, fast football.”

That’s the one thing that can certainly be levelled at Mourinho: his teams don’t play exhilarating football. Now, after consecutive FA Cup successes, Jensen feels the Gunners are ready to win the Premier League title for the first time in over a decade.

“We deserve to win the league this year,” said Jensen.

“The important thing is to win trophies and in the last two seasons he’s won two FA Cups, so I think they will take another step, all the players, the whole squad, even Arsène Wenger will do it.

“I think they’re ready to challenge for the title because they’ve go the confidence, they’ve got the players, and they’ve got the money as well”

So far this season the players have looked either over-confident or bereft of confidence. Despite a strong end to last season the team hasn’t looked balanced at all as Wenger tried to shoehorn Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and Francis Coquelin into the same team.

As for the money, the club have strengthened by adding Petr Čech but that’s it so far this summer. We’re close but, in order to compete, you do feel we need either a midfielder or a marquee striker before the transfer window slams shut next week.