Laurene Laverne
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In 2006, the club left its home of 93 years, Highbury, and relocated to the new, much larger Emirates Stadium.
And the move meant that you had to cope with financial constraints.
The club then didn't win another trophy for 11 years.
How did the move affect you?
Yes, you paid off the debt that you accrued in creating the new stadium, but that is a substantial burden and a pressure to carry with you over that time.
And what about the change from the old stadium to the new one on the team?
Let's have some more music.
It's your seventh.
What are we going to hear?
Oh yeah, complete cri de coeur.
Jacques Brel, nobody better than Makita Pah.
Arsene Wenger, you left Arsenal in 2018 after 22 years there and you'd last won the FA Cup in 2017, one of only three trophies since you moved to the Emirates Stadium.
You've said that you wanted to see out your contract and you were clearly very sad to leave.
How difficult was it to do so?
In 2015, you were quoted as saying, I always treated Arsenal as if it belonged to me.
How do you feel about the club now?
You've got a little bit of distance on it after leaving.
How do you think they're going to do this season?
In this new chapter of yours, you're currently FIFA's head of global football development of both the women and the men's games.
And of course, we're in the midst of a global pandemic right now.