• Arsenal manager would not have considered helping a direct opponent
• Debuchy had admitted disappointment at lost ‘magnificent’ opportunityArsène Wenger has confirmed that he blocked Manchester United’s loan paddle for Mathieu Debuchy in January and the Arsenal manager expressed his surprise that the Old Trafford club should even have tried.
Debuchy,who has been supplanted by Héctor Bellerín in the just-back position at Arsenal, was desperate for regular football over the second-half of the season, and with a view to forcing his way into Didier Deschamps’ France squad for the Euro 2016 finals and he ended up joining Bordeaux on loan.
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Source: theguardian.com