Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

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

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

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.

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

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

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.