Wenger admitted that Cole's departure was a mistake, and Arsenal missed too much in order to build the stadium?

Ashley Cole was born in London in 1980 and, as a "pure" Londoner, wanted to play football and had many options, while Ashley Cole chose Arsenal.

Wenger said Ashley Cole joined Arsenal at the age of 9-10 and was a child who grew up at Arsenal.

Indeed, the early Ashley Cole also played as a striker, but under the influence of arsenal's youth coach, he finally tried the position of full-back, and this change also made Ashley Cole officially one of the best full-backs in the history of English football!

Ashley Cole made a name for himself at Chelsea

What many young fans today may not know is that ashley Cole has quickly become an important player for Arsenal since being promoted to the first team in 1999 and then loaned out to Crystal Palace for six months.

Wenger also admitted in the interview that after Arsenal won the league twice, Ashley Cole is the future captain arsenal has worked hard to cultivate, and, in Wenger's view, Ashley Cole is also different from Fabregas, Wenger knows that Fabregas will leave Arsenal one day, but Cole is different, he is Arsenal's child, is the jewel of Arsenal's youth training, and is the best LB (left-back) in the Premier League at that time!

But it was one of them, the core players, who were eventually sold to Chelsea by Arsenal for about 5 million pounds because of the weekly salary difference of 5,000 euros.

Wenger's interview is hard to hide his disappointment

It is said that Wenger had agreed to Cole's offer in private negotiations with Cole, but eventually the private agreement was exposed and stabbed into the Arsenal board, which eventually triggered a conflict between Cole and the board, and Cole had to go to Chelsea, which was recently acquired by Abu, and became an important star of the Blues.

At that time, Arsenal still had a debt from building the stadium, and Krich performed well, perhaps this gave the Arsenal board an illusion, and Cole was no different.

In August 2006, the future captain of arsenal, who made more than 226 appearances, scoring nine goals and assisting 22, moved to Chelsea at the age of 26 at the peak of his career.

Wenger had to say: It was absolutely wrong to let Ashley Cole go because of a contract dispute, because Ashley Cole was not only the best full-back in the Premier League at Arsenal, but also when he moved to Chelsea, he was one of the best in world football at that time! If Cole hadn't left, Arsenal would have gone through the tragic experience of "selling captain every year" in the future!

Ashley Cole has strengthened Chelsea's strengths

From 2006 to 2014, Ashley Cole made more than 338 appearances for the Blues in eight years, helping Chelsea win the Champions League for the first time in its history and gain more honors than at Arsenal.

Even after retiring, Ashley Cole has clearly interacted more with Chelsea and is now an assistant coach at Everton, working with former Chelsea player Frank Lampard.

From the perspective of the latter, Arsenal continues to lose core players for the new stadium, is this a pro or a disadvantage?

Before Arsenal built the stadium, most of the income of the traditional giants in European football still came mainly from matchday revenue: tickets and other revenues can account for almost half of most teams' income!

According to statistics, in the 2006/2007 season, arsenal's first year at the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's game-day revenue nearly doubled, from more than 40 million last season to more than 90 million! More than 40% of Arsenal's overall revenue!

But no one expected that the Premier League's broadcast revenue would almost double down since then, and in the 16/17 season, broadcast revenue had become the bulk of the Premier League club's revenue! The stadium's matchday income can not be increased too much, after all, Arsenal tickets are already the first gear of the Premier League when they come to the Emirates Stadium.

The stadium was inaugurated and Wenger gradually abdicated

In the long run, building the stadium does reflect the forward-looking nature of Wenger and the Arsenal board at the time, after all, more and more teams now understand the importance of building a modern stadium.

But we must also understand that Wenger was indeed careless, and that both he and the Arsenal board underestimated Abu's involvement in the Premier League, the impact on Arsenal, and the impact on foreign gold dollars.

Chelsea and Manchester City broke the traditional pattern of the Premier League and gradually monopolized the top four positions in the Premier League for a long time, which made Arsenal's perennial Champions League qualification that arsenal could have expected gradually lose.

Moreover, Chelsea and Manchester City both got their important players from Arsenal at the time, and in order to gain some benefits, Arsenal could even resell Van Persie, who played his peak season, to Manchester United, which directly weakened Arsenal's strength and enhanced the strength of competitors.

Arsenal's weakness is not only about building the stadium, but more importantly, they have become the "star processing plant" of many clubs during the critical period of building the stadium, and even Tottenham's Levi knows that "enemies" are a huge injury to their team, even if they are in debt, Spurs will not easily let Kane go.

Emirates Stadium has become one of London's icons

But in any case, the establishment of the Emirates Stadium also ensures that Arsenal still has the top gold absorption ability in Europe after years of losing the ability to compete for supremacy, from the game day income to the stadium's long-term sponsorship list, which allows Arsenal to achieve a positive cycle, which is something that the middle and lower teams in the five major leagues can not meet.

Today, Arteta is under the "legacy" of his predecessors, leading Arsenal to the rebuilding attack, perhaps the process will not be smooth, but at least, he and Arsenal still have a world-class legacy to escort them.