Arsenal may have to win the Premier League to tie down Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil - TACKLE KEOWN

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I bumped into Stephane Henchoz in Basle this week. He was hiding under a hat — I didn't believe it was him at first and thought someone was winding me up.

I reminded him of his three handballs in the 2001 FA Cup final and he replied, 'No, it was just two!'

I still can't believe how he got away with it — the Anfield gods must have been shining on Liverpool that day!

I only wore gloves during a match twice.

The first was for Arsenal under Bruce Rioch. I can't remember who we were playing but I remember waking up the morning of the game and finding the house covered in ice.

There had been driving rain overnight and it had frozen to the front of our house. It was ridiculously cold!

The second was in November 2000 away to Spartak Moscow in the Champions League. It was about minus eight.

When we arrived in Russia, we went for a walk and there were these guys outside the front of the hotel selling Russian hats. We told them we weren't interested but we only got 100 yards down the road before running back to buy them! It was so cold our ears were burning.

When it came to the match, you didn't want to come out for the Champions League music. You thought, 'How could anyone play in this?' You could feel the pitch start to get crusty underfoot. Coming out for the second half was even more difficult when your kit was all wet. Sylvinho put us 1-0 up after two minutes but we lost 4-1.

I do feel the cold — particularly when I am co-commentating. I wore every thermal under the sun in Basle this week and was still freezing!

He looks particularly quick and mobile. Bailly is a better player than Marcos Rojo but Jose Mourinho has praised Rojo and Phil Jones for their performances in recent weeks.

I don't think Mourinho takes it well if you are not available. He seems to run out of patience with players who have been injured, such as Luke Shaw and Anthony Martial.

If I was Bailly, I would be concerned that I wouldn't be jumping straight back into this team.

I don't think it's right. With a three-team group it means there will be one team sitting out during the final round of group matches that decide who will qualify for the next round.

The other suggested format of 16 play-off games is also not workable. If you want to play these matches at a tournament, you would need to have 16 venues. Then you are asking fans to travel halfway around the world to watch one match!

If they want to enlarge the tournament, FIFA would be best served copying the format at Euro 2016 but that, too, had its drawbacks.

It created negativity at the tournament as four of the six third-placed teams in four-team groups were able to qualify.

This is a very tricky game for Jose Mourinho. If Manchester United were to lose this one, fourth place becomes very difficult for them to achieve.

For Tottenham, it is the third tough away game in the last few weeks having travelled to the Emirates and Stamford Bridge. If they can get a result at Old Trafford, it leaves them a great position as all these teams have to play them at White Hart Lane later in the season.

I think it will be a 2-2 draw.

It may take winning the Premier League to get both signatures in the bag.

Every player has their own different motivation. For some, it is winning the league and for others it is earning a new contract.

Perhaps Arsenal could use delivering the Premier League as the motivation for Ozil and Sanchez to sign new deals.

I have a feeling that when one signs, the other will follow suit. If Ozil had already signed, I'm sure Sanchez would have, too.

I don't think Sanchez could find anywhere else in Europe that is better than what he is finding at Arsenal. He is a free spirit, working with a manager who will give him the freedom to express himself.

He is using his tremendous pace to great effect in a central position and Arsenal must make the most of him in that position.

Arsenal won't be held to ransom — we've seen this with Robin van Persie. But if they leave it 18 months and the pair leave on a free then that's the best part of £72million gone.

Arsenal would need to spend at least £100m to replace them. They need to get these two signed up.

When it comes to a knockout competition, you want the team that is there to be beaten.

You don't want to be playing against the likes of Barcelona or Bayern Munich. They can have an off night in a group match but they are programmed winners.

It is best to keep the best team until last. I never played in a Champions League final but I played in enough finals to know how I would have conducted myself should I have got there.

It does take the edge off you. As a player, Thursday is the one night of the week you don't feel you have football on the agenda.

You feel you can relax. If you have played on a Tuesday, Thursday is the day after a day off so everyone comes in fresh and ready to train. You still have a couple of nights at home before you play on Saturday.

You can enjoy being a professional footballer instead of feeling snowed under.

A knock-on effect of playing on Thursday is that you are always playing catch-up with your rivals. You are climbing into bed on Saturday night having watched Manchester United or Chelsea win well and you have to do the same the following day.

During the title run-in last season, Tottenham played three matches in a row on Monday nights. It meant they were always playing catch-up with Leicester and they will have to do the same this season as an unwanted consequence of dropping into the Europa League.

It really is dependent on the draw. I think Arsenal finishing top will help them. It means the second leg of their last-16 tie is back at their place and you know exactly what they need to do.

I was very impressed with Arsenal's professionalism and workrate against Basle on Tuesday. They had already qualified and finishing top was out of their hands but Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez worked harder than anyone else on the pitch.

Somewhere along the line they have lost their priorities. They don't seem to be at boiling point.

You do start to question their desire when you look back at how hard they were working last year.

Set pieces have become a big issue. You could not get away from Wes Morgan for love nor money last season but he has become a little loose. He is not being as strong with himself in the standards he is setting.

It is difficult for them not to be a turbulent dressing room. There is no consistency in their performances. Someone has to tell them, 'Look — you thought you would be remembered as the team that won the Premier League against all odds but do you want to go down in history as the champions who got relegated 12 months later?'

It's time for them to sit down as a group and work out their priorities. They are slipping fast and are now a target for every other team. Last season they were like an elastic band being pulled towards their target of the title. Now that band has been cut to ribbons.

How many teams in the Champions League across Europe are 21 points behind their current league leaders? If you are a true champion you should be embarrassed by this.

Claudio Ranieri has to sort this out. He must get the focus back and get them back to basics.

We were in a similar situation in 1999-2000 at Arsenal. I said all we can do now is go and win the UEFA Cup. We got to the final but lost on penalties.

It does make it a very long season but at this stage in Tottenham's development they need to stay in it and take it seriously.

They will be playing their games at Wembley but my attitude would be only play there when you absolutely have to.

We played our Champions League home games at Wembley in 1999 but got the final of the UEFA Cup after coming back to Highbury.

The pitch was like a postage stamp compared with Wembley and I remember passes flying off the pitch early on from our opponents getting their distances wrong. It was interesting seeing how foreign teams struggled with the intensity of Highbury.