Patrick Vieira played down talk he could take over at Arsenal as the Nice coach labelled it a "very complicated job".
Unai Emery was sacked as Arsenal head coach on Friday amid a seven-match winless run for the Premier League club.
Vieira – an Arsenal great – has been one of the names mentioned to potentially take charge at the Emirates Stadium, but the Nice coach played down the reports.
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"There are things I don't control, people who say a lot of stuff, which is true or not true," he told a news conference after Nice's 3-1 Ligue 1 win over Angers on Saturday.