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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has opened up about his move from Arsenal to Liverpool, insisting there were no “I told you so” feelings after he won the Champions League with the Reds last year.
The midfielder left the Gunners after a six-year stint in 2017, joining alongside Jurgen Klopp in an unexpected deal worth £ 35 million.
Oxlade-Chamberlain had made 198 appearances for the Gunners, winning the FA Cup three times, but was frustrated at the club because manager Arsene Wenger used him in a rear wing role.
And, although he won the Champions League, the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Super Cup with the Reds, the 26-year-old maintains that he does not feel that his transfer has been claimed by the cutlery.
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Speaking to great Ian Wright of Arsenal about his departure from the club, Oxlade-Chamberlain said: “I wouldn’t say that he wanted to leave Arsenal because he didn’t think we could win.”
“I just didn’t think I was going to be able to play where I wanted to play and that was it.
“Winning the Champions League was obviously a dream come true and a great advantage, but I didn’t feel like” Ah, I told you so ” [at Arsenal]. “
The England international also discussed the importance of having guaranteed minutes in midfield for his play.
“It was a great decision for me to leave a club like Arsenal. It was everything I knew at the highest level for seven years,” he added.
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“When you’ve been in a club like that for seven years … it’s a club you love to be in and it’s more than a football club, it’s a family culture.”
“When I had to make the decision to leave, it was the most difficult decision I’ve ever had to make and, to be honest, there was a part of me that didn’t know if it was the right thing to do.”
“I feel like a lot of my best performances for Arsenal came in midfield, but I never played consistently in that position.”
“I changed the first game of that season with Héctor [Bellerin]. First game I played on the left [wing-back], played in the right and second game that we changed.
“I thought,” I have to take a risk, I have to take a risk. I don’t want to look back at the end and think I didn’t try. “
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