The club captain will not play again this season and Wenger said that Henry's injury-hit campaign had not been eased by the attitude of the France national team.

Wenger's side go to Aston Villa tonight weighed down with suspensions to Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Eboué, Emmanuel Adebayor and Gaël Clichy and injuries to Henry, Robin van Persie and Alexandre Hleb. But it was Domenech who drew most of Wenger's ire for playing Henry for 90 minutes in all but one of the seven internationals in which he featured between August and last month.

He was particularly annoyed at Domenech's insistence that Henry play 90 minutes of a friendly against Bosnia on 16 August less than two weeks after the player had come back from holiday. Wenger said that he had rested the 29-year-old for the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Zagreb on 8 August and hoped that the French Football Federation would do the same.

"He [Henry] is paying the price of success," Wenger said. "I feel he has been badly managed after the World Cup. I don't take responsibility for that because I feel he has been badly managed by the French football team. I take responsibility for all the rest, but not for what I have not done.

"After the final on 9 July, I gave him a holiday until 4 August. Then he came back, we prepared him, I left him out of the Champions League qualifier in Zagreb and they [the FFF] called him up on 16 August - less than 14 days after he came back from holiday. And he played the whole game against Bosnia. After he had played in the World Cup final. Why do they need to play him in the whole game?

"After that he played the whole game against Aston Villa. Then after that [Manchester City, the second game of the season] they [FFF] called him up [for two Euro 2008 qualifiers], and he has played every friendly since, when he was already on his knees."

Henry has played just 27 games this season for Arsenal, 16 in the Premiership and missed the Christmas period with back and hamstring problems. Against PSV Eindhoven last week he suffered a stomach and groin tear that mean he will not play again this season. "He [Henry] tells me that he feels he has let us down a little bit," Wenger said, "but he should not feel that because what can you do about injuries?"

"You pay the players and it is difficult to sacrifice the target of our season, the Champions League and he goes to play a friendly for the national team - it is very difficult to take. You have a responsibility to your fans."

Wenger said that the only signings he would make this summer would be "super-class". He added that he was confident the goalkeeper Jens Lehmann would sign a new contract.