Arsene is intelligent enough to know what that did to the team [in selling Vieira]. People saw how influential Patrick was on the pitch, dominating midfield by himself. But people also forget how he was off the pitch, how impressive he was in the dressing room, and how important he was for every other player, young and old. I think a lot of people underestimated that. |
At the time I played with him (Ian), I didn't think I would ever play with another quite like him. I really didn't think that his record would ever be broken, |
I am just happy to play in any game (but) I can't talk about games in Europe when I'm not even playing at home at the moment. |
I feel we are getting better in that we are getting more experience in it, |
I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands. |
If you look at the whole package, with what Thierry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place, and his acceleration will take him past any defender. |
In the past few weeks, you can see that the spirit and the football are coming back. |
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period. |
My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again, |
Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. |
Playing with 10 men was difficult but we kept battling. This result has to give us confidence. |
Plenty of players have impressed me, |
They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point. |
We created some chances in the first half and the sending-off made it difficult for us to get going, |
We created some chances in the first half and the sending-off made it difficult for us to get going. But we did and we got a goal. They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point, with it being 10 against 11. |