Arsene Wenger compares Wilshere to Zinedine Zidane (2013)
‘National teams need a guy who absorbs this type of pressure and takes it. We [France] had Zinedine Zidane. When the France team played well it was all Zidane, but the others could play. Before we had Michel Platini. In the history of the French team, it stops when Platini stops, the results. They stopped when Zidane stopped. You need a good generation but you also need one player. Jack can take that, he is young, only 22. He has the characteristics to do that.’