{"id":51021,"date":"2024-09-27T05:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-it-was-unfair-for-me-to-stay-willian-opens-up-on-arsenal-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:04:45","slug":"epl-it-was-unfair-for-me-to-stay-willian-opens-up-on-arsenal-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-it-was-unfair-for-me-to-stay-willian-opens-up-on-arsenal-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: It was unfair for me to stay \u2013 Willian opens up on Arsenal exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Olympiacos midfielder, Willian, has admitted he made a big mistake joining Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Willian left Chelsea to sign for the Gunners as a free agent in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking with Five YouTube channel, the Brazilian revealed that he endured the most difficult time of his career at the Emirates.<\/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 said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I arrived there I was happy, from the beginning I was motivated, I wanted to do well \u2013 new club, new mates, new project. But after three months, I said to my agent: \u2018Please, I want to go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 (to leave Arsenal).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 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<p>EPL: It was unfair for me to stay \u2013 Willian opens up on Arsenal exit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympiacos midfielder, Willian, has admitted he made a big mistake joining Arsenal. Willian left Chelsea to sign for the Gunners&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,194,15,160,8829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-epl","category-news","category-sport","category-willian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}