Adebayor: Wenger will lead Arsenal to glory

Wenger himself has conceded that his team's title ambitions are over for the season, with Arsenal nine points off the pace with only four games to play.

Having also lost a dramatic Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool last week, Arsenal - knocked out of the FA Cup at Old Trafford and in the Carling Cup semi-finals by eventual winners Tottenham - are set for another campaign without a trophy.

Nevertheless, Wenger, 58, continues to hold unquestioning belief that his young side can deliver and feels they will be stronger for the experience of what has been a rollercoaster season, with Arsenal once five points clear at the top of the table before losing striker Eduardo da Silva to a horrific broken leg at the end of February.

Adebayor, who put Arsenal ahead at Old Trafford, only to see the champions fight back, maintains the man who brought the Londoners three league titles and four FA Cups, as well as an appearance in the 2006 Champions League final, has not lost his touch.

"Arsene is a great man and a great manager," said Adebayor, who now has 20 Premier League goals this season.

"He has achieved a lot of things with this club. For sure he is going to be here.

"He has a vision to bring a lot of good players to this club like Alex Hleb, Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Eboue, Cesc Fabregas and William Gallas. They are his players. So, for sure, we will win something, no doubt about that.

"We will never give up. Last season we finished fourth so we have made a lot of progress and we deserved something.

"I still believe we are still one of the best teams in the world. We know how to achieve things and we know how to play football. But next season we have to come out like a killer to do something. We have the quality."

Arsenal were once again guilty of an inability to turn an impressive performance into a win as they went down 2-1 to United, but Wenger has insisted there will be no compromising when it comes to the team's approach next season.

"I believe the gap between success and failure is very thin and I didn't feel that we were inferior technically speaking and in terms of quality," he said. "We have to accept we will not win the title and that is difficult to swallow because I don't feel there is a difference in quality between us and Chelsea and Manchester United.

"I feel we have done a lot for the Premier League this year. We want to win trophies by playing the way we do but we want to do it better. That will come.

"But we have to go beyond the situation we have now where the praise given to winners is beyond reason while those who don't win are slaughtered beyond reason. Football is more than that.

"We feel there is not a big difference between ourselves and the other teams. We play quality football because we think that is the way to win trophies. We have lacked maturity defensively at times this season but that will come.

"I'm very proud of my team and we have to continue producing the kind of football we produce and not always be unlucky.

"We played very well at Liverpool and five days later. With all the things that went against us recently we have to be exceptionally strong to produce a performance like we did here."