Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
No, he wouldn't have chosen us had it not been for Wenger. I think Pires has effectively said that before. But players wanting to play specifically for YOU is not luck. And it wasn't because he was French.

Kolo Toure, Edu, Van Persie, Silvinho, Igors Stepanovs..... it is fair to say Wenger's knowledge ran beyond French football.
Lol.

I agree it was playing for AW, but that AW team had PV4 and Titi who only AW would have got to come to the PL at that time. And that can't have hurt.

I remember watching the interview when they cut away from the push-bike racing.

C+ journo: "You could have chosen RM as well as Arsenal. Why did you turn down RM?
RP7 {smiling}: "Just think this is the best move."

Knew he was gonna be a ledge {the fact that he'd single-handedly made the winner for a 1-0 down, 2-1 up final victory the day before that had made all my French mates very happy also helped given the glw and I had flown out to the French Carib to watch the game on telly with them.}

Skiltord got the stoppage time equalizer, didn't he? Had a decent shot when he wanted, that lad.

Basically, his peak years were ruined by Dennis not ageing quick enough for him to partner Titi. Maybe his agent got DB10's age mixed up like the moody Scouse Jock did?