Arsenal are a French team.

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Quotes from Robert Pires:

"As soon as we reached the semi-finals it was like having a France side there. I know people say there are not enough English players in our team but that's of little importance to me. I can see some people worrying about it, but not me."

"When I signed in the summer of 2000, there were lots of English players in the squad."

"But these days there are only two who play regularly in the first team — Ashley and Campbell."

"After that, there is only little Theo Walcott who joined us in January and he hasn't played at all."

"Arsenal have had a French identity for some time now. French is the language we speak in the changing-room, more so than English."

One more reason not to support them in the Champions League Final.

 

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Which team who has won the champs league recently has done so without loads of foreigners? I can't remember 1. It's an international game now which although i dont fully agree with the price of average englishmen these days and the fact there aren't that many top class englishmen means the top teams have to look elsewhere.

Spurs have done well with the amount of englishmen they have, that can't be doubted but to be honest player for player there's not many, if any that would get into the Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U or Liverpool teams.

I'm quite confident Spurs will go out in the qualifying rounds if they make it into the champs league.

It's not the presence of foreigners which I have the problem with. It's 1066 part deux for Arsenal. French is the language in your dressing room, for me that is bizarre.

Also you're telling me you wouldn't want Robinson, King or Lennon at Arsenal?

If we do get into the qualifying rounds it really depends who we come up against if we get through, also the quality of player we bring in the summer.

 

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I don't think anyone has issues with foreigners playing for their clubs - just the number of them. I personally would love to see the 3 foreigner rule brought back (except for extending it to 5 foreign players). I think the idendity of domestic clubs can & will be hurt if this carries on.

If it was me, and I was an Englishman playing for an English club, and I was sat in my teams dressing room every other week struggling to have that much banter because all the other players were speaking French/Spanish/Italian, etc. I'd be pretty p***** off.

Spot on.