Henry: September award (JamieMcDonald/GettyImages)

During September Arsenal scored 12 goals in five matches and some impressive performances helped them to wins over Manchester City, Charlton, Bolton and Leeds, with French striker Henry on target in each in the victories.

Arsenal, yet to be beaten this season, currently stand two points clear at the top of the Barclaycard Premiership.

`Arsene Wenger and Thierry Henry epitomise what is so good about Arsenal,' said a statement from the Barclaycard Awards Panel, which includes representatives from football's governing bodies, the media and fans.

`Wenger is one of the greatest managers in Premiership history who looks set to dominate the English game for years to come.

`Henry is being touted as one of the best players in the world and who would argue? Fifty-eight Premiership goals, four during September, he was last season's Barclaycard Golden Boot winner and surely the favourite to win it again. Not bad for a player who is just 25 years old.'

And Wenger said he thinks the best is yet to come from Henry.

He declared: `Thierry is 25 years old. He has already won the World Cup, the European Championship, the English championship, the FA Cup and the French championship, so you could do worse.

`He will get much better though as he wants to be better. He's intelligent and ambitious, and those two qualities combined always make you improve in life.

`That would make him an even greater player. Between 25 and 30 is the golden age for a striker.

`I like Thierry's game as he's more than a goalscorer. He finished top scorer in the league last year but he's like every player that I've liked in the history of the game - he has something more.

`He's a provider, a team player and just a great player.'

Wenger believes the making of Henry's career was not only his mental strength to cope with rejection at Juventus - `like a first love disappointment' - but in his ability to be transformed from a winger into a striker at Highbury.

However, he feels the France international's game can still mature, with his heading ability and free-kicks just two areas in which even more development is still possible.

As for his injury, which was sustained at Auxerre on Wednesday night, Wenger added: `The signs look very good.

`I said on Wednesday night that it would be 50-50. Now I think he has a better chance of playing than that.

`We'll give him a scan and if there's no damage in the muscle then I think he will play. What we don't want is to make it worse, which would mean three weeks out.