Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.
Playing in a team like Arsenal helps massively having all of these players around you giving you advice. When they are playing well, you feel comfortable, and it helps you to play well, too.
Thank you Arsenal. For me, I could not be happier to leave through the front door with the Arsenal fanbase supporting me and the club supporting me.
I want Arsenal to want me. If they didn’t want me, it would hurt.
It is a lot of fun here in England and at Arsenal.
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It’s just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
Sometimes when you make mistakes at big clubs you get punished. With Arsenal, people always seem to blame the defence for defeats. But I feel really safe behind them.
The Swedish team plays very differently from Arsenal. There is more freedom with Arsenal and they play a passing game.
Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Many young players tell you that they want to play for Manchester United or Arsenal. My dream was to play for Arsenal and I realised it. When I arrived, I thought: ‘Wow, I’m here!’
It is an important duty at Arsenal for the experienced players to show the younger ones that there is a chance to make it into the first team.
I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
When I left Arsenal, it was because I had done everything there and a big club like Real Madrid wanted me and even David Beckham couldn’t turn them down.
Arsenal have always been the team closest to my heart and a side I’ve wanted to join since I was a child.
To be an Arsenal fan is to convince yourself that you can no longer support a team that disappoints you, only to be drawn back in by the ever-flickering promise of something better.
I want to be an Arsenal legend.
Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.
Arsenal have the most amazing stadium, they have a style of play, they have a beautiful shirt – in every way I consider Arsenal as the ultimate football club.
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It’s been up and down in my Arsenal career, to be honest.
My first medal, the League Cup at Tottenham, that was a very proud moment for me. Being captain, and winning. But also winning the double in my first year at Arsenal, that was special.
I have never said I would leave Arsenal.
I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don’t know what I’m going to come at you with.
I arrived back in Argentina and a week after I had the offer from Arsenal. They called my agent and my family and I thought it was all about signing a new contract for my club in Argentina because they wanted to offer me one at the time, but it was actually to sign for Arsenal.
What? We can’t beat Arsenal? My team-mates were insecure and that shocked me, I had come from Real Madrid where I won everything.
In a team like Manchester City, Arsenal, and other big clubs, it’s quite difficult just to have the same 11 players starting every week.
When I was playing for Reading, I got this feeling of being the No 1 – and I want that at Arsenal.
I never said Arsenal fans were not good. I just said I saw real passion when I signed here, and I said Arsenal was a little bit different. That is the only thing I said.
I spent six beautiful years at Arsenal.
You know the madness of the English football season has kicked in when a fan rings up 606 and says Arsenal will win the title.
When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.
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I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.
When I joined Arsenal in 2000 I learned a lot from Dennis Bergkamp. He was the mind of the team and he made things look easy.
But I believe I should have the chance to show how good I am at Arsenal.
At the academy the coaches would show us Arsenal games on TV and my idol was Thierry Henry. He inspired me. That’s why I became an Arsenal fan.
The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with non-U.K. origins.
I think Arsenal would be good for a German coach.
I’ll never go round slagging Arsenal off, because I’ve had 13 fantastic years there.
I’ll play anywhere for Arsenal, but hopefully, given my chance up front, I can do something, because I’ve always been more of a striker than a winger, and I think I could show a bit more up front.
I don’t know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.
My paternal grandmother, Nanny Hadley, lived in a block of flats in London; you could see the corner post of the Arsenal football ground from her front window. We were all supporters of Arsenal because of that.
Everything that I am and everything that I have, I owe to Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Liam Brady, David Court, Bob Arber, Steve Bould, Neil Banfield, Mike Salmon, Tony Roberts, Gerry Peyton, Pat Rice, and many others. Words can’t describe my gratitude to these people and love for this club.
A club like Arsenal, it’s normal that expectations are high. This club must compete for titles, and that’s what we want to do.
I liked playing in England, I liked playing for Arsenal.
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When I was young at Arsenal, you take it for granted, playing all the time.
Starting games with the French national team helped me bounce back when it was getting difficult with Arsenal.
I spent nine years at Arsenal, which makes the club really special for me.
I went to West Ham in order to play against Arsenal as often as possible.
Unai Emery’s philosophy is to play good football and his experience with Sevilla and Paris Saint-Germain makes him a great candidate for the Arsenal job.
A club like Arsenal is a fabulous club, it is a well-run club.
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job.
One thing is for sure, I will give everything every time I put on the Arsenal shirt.
The fact is that the coach wanted to recruit a new striker, and with Aubameyang’s signing at Arsenal, there were three top strikers, and that’s why I decided to leave.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
There were a lot of reasons why I wanted to leave Arsenal.
You know I’ve been at Arsenal which is a top club and every week you have to fight for your place.
If I have to, I’ll keep going until my career ends, but I think I’ve found a club to put down roots. A traditional club that supports its people, people who believe in it and give everything. I’d like to be part of that, a great footballer for many years for Arsenal.
We didn’t think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended – that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
I don’t know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.
I loved watching Arsenal, my son’s an Arsenal fan.
I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches – it was a little bit alien to me.
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
Arsenal is one of the top teams in Europe and I have been looking out for Arsenal since I got my first jersey when I was ten or 12.
I was very young in the past at Arsenal, at Real Madrid as well.
Jack Wilshere is a prime example of how things work. He went to Bolton and did really well, then he went back to Arsenal and really kicked on. It is something quite a few of the young boys look at and think, ‘If he can do it, so can we.’
I don’t regret leaving Arsenal.
I’d no longer be the same player without my rigorousness, and certainly not the player Arsenal wanted.
Of course I support England – and I follow Birmingham. I am an avid football fan, and obviously, I have a connection with Arsenal, so I like to watch them, too. I think anyone who is English follows the men’s team and wants them to do well, and I’m an avid follower of any football, really.
