Matteo Guendouzi opens up on Arsenal exit and makes telling Mikel Arteta trophy admission

Matteo Guendouzi has insisted that he has no regrets over his time with Arsenal. The Frenchman arrived in the summer of 2018 from Lorient and impressed during Unai Emery's time at the club.

However, when Mikel Arteta took over as manager in 2019, despite a decent start, the pair would go on to clash. This ultimately ended up with Guendouzi being frozen out and not even involved in most matchday squads after Project Restart following football's return from COVID in 2020.

Guendouzi would go on to have a loan spell with Hertha Berlin before securing an exit to Marseille the season after. Despite a bitter end to his time with Arsenal though, the Frenchman has insisted that there is little he would change.

“I have no regrets about what I did at Arsenal,” he told the Athletic. “I was 19 and I went on to play 85 games in two years. Eighty-five games for a big club like Arsenal is a lot.

“I tried to give my best for the club. In my first season, we finished fifth, just one point behind the Champions League places, and we lost in the Europa League final. When you finish fifth in England, it’s like second or third in other leagues.

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“England is very competitive, even with the teams at the bottom; it’s maybe the biggest league in the world because every game is very, very difficult. I am very happy about what I did there.

“The next season we won the FA Cup. I was so young, I played a lot, I was very happy with this. I learnt a lot with great players. Mesut Ozil was the best, an amazing player with the ball — he sees things you would never see in your life.

“I was lucky to work