I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

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.

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

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