{"id":1239099,"date":"2021-12-23T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1239099"},"modified":"2021-12-24T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:23:43","slug":"willian-arsenal-three-months-wanted-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/willian-arsenal-three-months-wanted-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Willian: I wanted to leave Arsenal only three months after joining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It took Willian only three months to realise he wanted to leave Arsenal after joining from Chelsea in the summer of 2020, the Brazilian has revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old crossed the Chelsea-Arsenal divide last year having spent seven trophy-laden years at Stamford Bridge, winning two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup and the 2019 Europa League (at the expense of the Gunners in the final).<\/p>\n<p>A crowd-pleaser in west London, the skilful Brazilian linked up with Mikel Arteta hoping to translate his form from one part of the capital to another, but things didn&#8217;t quite work out for Willian at the Emirates &#8211; where he made just 16 Premier League starts last season.<\/p>\n\n<p>The former Brazil international ultimately departed Arsenal in the summer just gone after mutually terminating his contract, rejoining boyhood club Corinthians, whom he represented during the early stages of his career before transferring to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Following his move back to Brazil, Willian described his experience at Arsenal as the<span> &#8220;worst&#8221; of his professional career, now revealing he gave up &#8220;big money&#8221; to terminate his contract early and leave the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t happy, I wasn\u2019t happy. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t perform. I don\u2019t want to go into the details,\u201d Willian told Rio Ferdinand\u2019s <em>Vibe with Five<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I arrived there I was happy, from the beginning I was motivated, I wanted to do well &#8211; new club, new mates, new project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is an Enganche? Best players, roles and tactics explained using Football Manager | FM22\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5I8tOr0BMOM?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut after three months, I said to my agent: \u2018Please, I want to go\u2019. I don\u2019t want to speak bad about the club, because it is a big club. Arsenal has a big history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn football, big players played there before as well. But it didn\u2019t work, it didn\u2019t work. It was, of course, the most difficult time of my career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was big money that I gave up. But sometimes money is not the most important thing in life. I think you need to be happy, get pleasure every day waking up in the morning to go to train. I wasn\u2019t having that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I said to myself, with my family, I cannot stay here, I am not happy here. I have to leave, find a way out, leave the club, because if I stay I am going to stay the same. For me, it\u2019s unfair to stay in a place that you don\u2019t want to stay just because of the money. For me, it was that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Willian failed to produce a shot on target, make a successful cross, complete a take-on, make a successful tackle or win any of the four duels he contested in 90 minutes against Everton. ?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1340379022786768898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Willian: I wanted to stay at Chelsea<\/h2>\n<p>Willian went into further details about his desire to stay at Cobham, but Chelsea&#8217;s renowned &#8216;over-30s&#8217; contract policy, in which they only offer short-term deals to players in their 30s ultimately led to the Brazilian departing the club as he wanted a longer renewal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was difficult to decide, because I wanted to stay at Chelsea,\u201d he replied when asked about his decision to join Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I wanted a three-year contract and Chelsea say: \u2018No we want to give you two years\u2019. 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