LONDON -- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said he does not need the club to rename Emirates Stadium in his honour when he decides to step down.
Wenger's future has become the subject of debate, with the abuse he received from Arsenal supporters after last weekend's 3-2 defeat at Stoke raising fresh questions over his future.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew called the reaction to Wenger "totally disrespectful" and said the club should consider renaming their stadium in the Frenchman's honour when he decides to step down.
There have been precedents for stadiums named after club legends, such as Inter and AC Milan's Stadio Giuseppe Meazza and Kaiserslautern's Fritz-Walter-Stadion, but Wenger said he was only concerned with success during his reign.
"I do not say it wouldn't mean anything to me, but I don't demand anything other than of myself," he added.
"What I want comes from inside myself, and that is just to do well in my job. When I retire one day, I want to feel I have given absolutely everything to do well with honest and total commitment. That's all I want. I don't want anything from outside."
Arsenal host Newcastle on Saturday and will be hopeful of a positive result, having claimed eight wins and five draws from their last 14 Premier League meetings with the Magpies.
However, Newcastle have bounced back from a dismal start to the season by winning six of their last eight games and, while Wenger and Pardew have had a turbulent relationship in the past, the Gunners boss was full of praise for his counterpart.
Referring to his touchline scuffle with Pardew, then at West Ham, in 2006, Wenger said: "We had a problem one time, but we sorted it out and you have to accept that.
"I think he has done very well. He has gone through a very difficult patch at Newcastle. He dealt with it with strength and dignity and, fortunately, he has been rewarded for it.
"Of course I have sympathy for every manager that suffers. He has done extremely well. He did well last year until December, until he lost [Yohan] Cabaye [to Paris Saint-Germain], and then it became difficult.
"This year they had a difficult start, but now they are on a great run. He has done a great job to redress that. It is not easy."
Wenger suggested that the severe criticism managers face in the modern game frustrated him, but added: "Society is like it is today.
"You want to win the next game, and it is a permanent tribunal from everybody. It is as it is, and you have to cope with that.
"You want respect in society. You want legally to make sure that respect is applied to everybody. Everybody has the right to be respected."