When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

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.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.