Former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has said the European Super League would have destroyed the Premier League if the competition had seen the light of the day.

Wenger, who led the Gunners to three Premier League titles and won the FA Cup seven times in his 21 years at the club, claimed that ‘everybody in Europe dreams of destroying the Premier League’ which, he added, is the strongest league globally.

“It was born dead. From the start, I couldn’t believe it would work,” the 71-year-old told The Telegraph. “The most surprising in all that was the English behaviour. Everybody dreams of destroying the Premier League in Europe. In England we do it ourselves.

“I can’t understand the rationality behind that because England voted for Brexit and now they want to bring a Super League. The English has the strongest league. The Super League would destroy, 100 per cent, the Premier League.

“The basis of our sporting culture in Europe is to have access through your performances to top-level competition.

“I don’t understand how anybody could believe that capping the link between the domestic league and access to the top league would pass and would be accepted by the fans.

“The rest is how amateurish all that looked in the presentation, in the preparation. You worry quite a lot how our top clubs are managed. It looked to be a quick fix for the financial problems that these clubs have.”