THIERRY HENRY admits David Deins departure has unsettled
everyone at Arsenal and left him pondering his
future.
In the week European champions AC Milan announced they want to sign
the Gunners skipper, Henry says: That is great to hear. How can it
be anything else?
The French star added: As I have said many times, at the moment I
am an Arsenal player.
But everyone knows that a lot of stuff has happened at the club
recently that wasnt supposed to happen.
In terms of the departure of Mr Dein, the bosses have been
unsettled and a lot of players at the club have been
unsettled.
So the only thing I can tell you is right now I am an Arsenal
player but I cannot deny its nice to hear about Milan.
Henry, 29, appeared to commit the rest of his career to Arsenal
last year when he signed a new four-year contract worth
£110,000-a-week.
But his future does not look so certain after vice-chairman Dein
was forced out in a boardroom power struggle in April.
Henry confessed: I was devastated when Mr Dein left the club. I
dont know what happened and I dont want to know. But whatever
went on, Mr Dein leaving was not a clever move.
Although no one is bigger than the club, Arsene Wenger and Mr Dein
are really close to being Arsenal.
They are the two people who come really close to saying
that.
Everybody who knows Mr Dein understands that the guy loves
football.
He knew everybody at the stadium, the name of everyone whether
you play for the youth team or clean the dressing room.
He is the type of guy who used to turn up to watch the reserves or
the Under-17 team whether it was raining, snowing or windy.
He would be there on his own at the training ground.
So if you ask me if there was one person on the board I would not
like to see leaving, I would have said Mr Dein.
Unfortunately it is out of my hands. I dont agree with what has
happened but sometimes thats the way things are. We just have to
move on.
Henry added that last seasons move to the Emirates Stadium has
affected Arsenals ability to challenge for major honours.
After two years without a trophy, many Arsenal fans fear their club
are falling behind their big-spending rivals Chelsea, Manchester
United and Liverpool.
And yesterday Wengers hopes of signing Franck Ribery were finally
scuppered when the Marseille winger opted to join German giants
Bayern Munich.
The Arsenal chief was hopelessly outbid as the French side held out
for a £23million deal.
Henry said: Everyone knows all our resources went into building
the new stadium. Maybe if we didnt have a new stadium then we
would have had more players and maybe done better.
That is why I would like to give credit to some of the youngsters
at Arsenal. The potential is definitely there so lets hope we can
put it all together and bring back some more silverware.
Manchester United didnt win the League for three years and
finally they did it. You have to keep going.
Henry has said umpteen times he's gonna stay. But why all
this rumors keep pouring in. And Mr Dein really affected most of
the arsenal squad eh?