Arsene Wenger's 22-year reign at Arsenal ends at Huddersfield on Sunday but his love affair with English football endures as he departs with characteristic words of concern for the future of the Premier League.

The Frenchman arrived at Arsenal as an unknown, cherry-picked from Japanese football by eagle-eyed chief executive David Dein in 1996, but is now a staunch Anglophile, who cares deeply about the future of the country's national sport.

And his departing words of warning are based in a fear that the Premier League could fall victim of its own success and the England team suffer unless they dare to innovate and adapt to.

Wenger sees football's rulers gripped by fear of change and topping his reasoning is the Premier League's failure to accept the introduction of VAR next season and short-termism preventing clubs from playing more young English players.

“The Premier League has done really well, but they are a little bit a prisoner now of the fact they have that superiority and are reluctant to change,” he reasoned.