Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has declared that his club and team are ready to rumble once again after enduring a sensitive decade where they went trophyless. The Frenchman opened up with BBC Sport emphasizing that the stadium rebuilding did affect his club’s on field prospects.
Wenger said: "What people forget is you have to build a new stadium.
"Now we can compete for the best players and that was not the case five years ago."
"I went with the club for the challenge of building a new stadium without dropping out of the Champions League and we made it every year," he added.
Wenger feels that he did his job and handled the task at hand at the expected levels and is ready to take Arsenal back to its superpower status in Premier League which has seen them slide behind Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City in recent years.
"I feel that I have done my job in a very committed and faithful way. In 20 years it will be acknowledged that was a very sensitive period for the club. Today the club is in a strong position.
"You want to win everything. We were not that far away but we were facing opposition with much more resources. We had to deal with it."