"When we built the stadium the banks demanded that I signed for five years," said the 66-year-old Frenchman.
"Do you want me to say how many clubs I turned down during that period?"
Construction began on the £390m Emirates Stadium in 2004, the year Wenger won the last of his three league titles with the club.
"The banks wanted the technical consistency to guarantee that we have a chance to pay them back," added Wenger, who has been in charge of the north Londoners since 1996.
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Even banks are a better judge of a manager than Arsenal fans. Once Wenger goes finishing outside top 4 will be the norm. I said before Wenger has put Arsenal financially many years ahead of Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs would have had a new stadium many years ago if they had Wenger level of manager. Anyway when Wenger goes I expect Arsenal to rarely finish in top 4. You could say about 12 years ahead of Tottenham Hotspur:
"Spurs, who are also due to move into their new 61,000-seater stadium in 2018."
Arsenal lucky to have Arsene Wenger
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And many will not know that when you won, you got 2 points for a win.
91 <whistler> It changed, let me ask you hafi, would that have altered champions in the subsequent years?
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It's no use igor. He can make a thread about world peace oe finding the cure to cancer.
He'd still relate it to how many shots United had against Wigan in 2007.
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Has he ever heard of Google, or if you goggle hafi you get Google.
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If Martinez was in charge that's a lot of shots, btw
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rubbish .....lucky to have wenger you must be joking...his record in europe is terrible.....thats the real acid test...
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http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/10263043/santi-cazorla-says-arsenal-need-to-change-something-if-they-are-to-improve
Santi is back. Anyway Wenger has constantly got out of the group stage so its not that bad.
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arsene wengbottler without Wenger you would struggle to even get into europe.
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Cech already made 2 big saves against Norwich City. De Gea has kept 3 clean sheets in his last 3 home premierleague games making 2 saves. I don't get why media always make a big deal about every save by DDG yet Cech makes a lot more most games like the norm.