One former Chelsea player has revealed why he joined Chelsea over an option to join Arsenal instead in an interview released this week.
There are actually quite a few players now who have famously gone between the two clubs. Ashley Cole is perhaps one of the classic examples, with Kai Havertz being one of the more recent examples. Cole went to Chelsea, and Havertz obviously went to Arsenal from Chelsea.
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It is something that fans will frown upon, but some players don’t see to see much in it.
Well, Shaun Wright-Phillips was very close to being an Arsenal player and not a Chelsea player, as revealed by the main himself this week.
Wright-Phillips had a fairly short stint at Chelsea under Jose Mourinho in the end, and it was a little bit hit and miss. But he also did play some good games and grab some decent goals whilst at the club.
Wright-Phillips on why he didn’t join Arsenal
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Wright-Phillips in his Chelsea days
“There was an opportunity to join Arsenal. Arsenal were the first movers in terms of when I first left City,” Wight-Phillips said this week.
“The only reason it didn’t happen is because Arsene Wenger wanted to wait until January, and I think City needed it to happen right away.
“So, if Arsene Wenger had just said ‘Okay, we will take him now,’ I most probably would have played for Arsene rather than Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.”
It doesn’t sound like he was overly bothered whether he went to Arsenal or Chelsea then, and it just so happened that Chelsea came in and wanted him sooner than Arsenal did.
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