The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.