Ferguson has criticised the League’s scheduling that has led to United playing a majority of games away following midweek Champions League games.

And Wenger agreed and urged the Premier League to discover a formula that is fairer to the top four involved in European games, and also those who lose a majority of their squad in international weeks.

“When I saw Ferguson’s case about fixtures, we checked - because we are always curious. And he has a case, and in this case so do we.

“If you take the international fixtures plus the Champions League, everybody has played ten games, six Champions League games and four internationals. And after those 10 games, we played eight away games and two at home.

“Manchester United played nine away games, Chelsea played six games at home and four away. And Liverpool played eight times at home and two away.

“You could argue the biggest disadvantage is not the Champions League but the international games when some of your players play a Wednesday night in Mexico and they cannot even play on Saturday if you kick-off early."

Traditionally the pair rarely see eye to eye and Wenger admitted that there was now more respect between the two.

“Maybe there is more respect, but in this case it’s not about respect,” said Wenger, “it’s a fixture problem. Maybe Liverpool had that disadvantage last year. Chelsea had that disadvantage a couple of years ago.

“I just think we should try to seek a better balance. It’s not a 100 per cent the explanation on why Liverpool are at the top; they have other qualities.”

As for a solution, Wenger added: "I would think the way to do it is if you play 10 games after Champions League or internationals then everybody plays five games at home and five away.

"But you have some teams playing eight or nine away and some teams playing eight at home, that is not really a fair competition.

"That is an unfair advantage and that explains a lot. In that case I stand alongside Ferguson."