Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has urged Arsene Wenger not to retire.
The Arsenal manager announced on Friday morning he would be leaving at the end of this season.
Mourinho said: “If he's happy I'm happy, if he's sad, I'm sad.
"I always wish the best for my opponents, I always wish the best, so for me that's the point, if he's happy with the decision he makes and looks forward to the next chapter of his career and his life I'm really happy for him.
"If he's sad, I'm sad. I'm pretty sure we as a club and especially because Mr Wenger and Arsenal were for many many years the biggest rivals of Sir Alex's era, I'm pretty sure that we as a club will show Mr Wenger the respect he deserves.
"I hope he doesn't retire from football."
Asked if he regretted any of his conduct towards Wenger, Mourinho said: “It's not about regretting, I think your question is a typical question from somebody that was not in this side, you were not a manager, a player, of course you don't know the way we respect each other even when sometimes it doesn't look like we don't, players that get yellow cards and red cards by aggressive actions against each other, bad words during the career, the manager is the same thing but the ones that respect more each other are the ones with the problems.
"It's power and ambition and quality against each other but in the end it's people from the same business and respect each others' careers, so it happened, what matters for me is the way I respect the person, the professional, the career and I always say that for some the memory is short.
"But for us football people, the real football people, who are the ones inside the four lines, playing, or the managers, or the refs, the others live on us, the football people doesn't have short memory.
"I know what it means, three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, what he did in Japan and France, what he brought to French football and what he gave to Arsenal in the period without PLs, the transition from stadium to stadium, we know what he did.
"If he's happy with the decision, I'm really happy and I hope he doesn't retire from football."
