Arsenal’s new number 29 Matteo Guendouzi becomes Emery’s fifth signing after Stephan Lichtsteiner, Bernd Leno,Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Lucas Torreira.
‘Proud’ Matteo Guendouzi spoke to Arsenal’s Official website after completing his Arsenal transfer. Below is the transcript of interview:
Matteo, congratulations. How does it feel to join Arsenal?
It’s something I’m immensely proud of. Arsenal have always been the team closest to my heart and a side I’ve wanted to join since I was a child. It gives me great pride – it’s incredible. I hope I can do great things here. It doesn’t get any better than coming to a club like this, with so much history, like Arsenal. I’m hugely proud.
Finally, what are you hoping to achieve during your time here?
My hope is to become a top player here at Arsenal. A lot of great players have played here. I want to become part of the club’s history and to achieve great things here. I want to win titles, titles, titles. I want to establish myself here, which would be amazing. Winning silverware, as I said, is very important to me and winning things here at Arsenal would be incredible.