Former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry has criticised fans who barracked manager Arsene Wenger at a train station following defeat in Stoke.
Despite last season securing a fifth FA Cup and qualifying for the Champions League for an 18th successive year, Wenger’s position at the club has come under increased scrutiny from some fans.
Hostility was directed towards the 65-year-old coach after Arsenal were beaten at the Britannia Stadium last month and Henry, who described supporter protests as being “out of order”, was not impressed.
The Frenchman told several national newspapers: “I thought it was a joke. You can be upset, I totally understand that. But when I saw what happened at Stoke I was like, ‘that’s totally unnecessary’.
“Fans do have a voice, I totally understand that, but what I saw after the Stoke City game was out of order. You can express that you are upset, but to do it in that way was a bit too much.
“But in the game at the moment, unfortunately that’s the way it is.”
Henry, who scored 228 goals for the Gunners, went on to lavish praise on summer signing Alexis Sanchez, claiming that the Chilean has been the best signing of the last few years.
“I am trying to think if there has been a better signing in the last five or six years,” he said. “Arsenal were looking for a player who could deliver on a daily basis and they have found one.
“He sees the game brilliantly as you saw on Sunday. He doesn’t need a lot of opportunities to put the ball in the net and that is very important.
“He is always going to score goals but it is his all-round game I am impressed with. That has no price. I, like any Arsenal fan, was waiting to have a player like him. Finally, we have one.”
Sanchez has scored 17 goals in 25 appearances in all competitions this season for the Gunners.
