Michel Platini: ‘I nearly joined Spurs or Arsenal’

By European Football
March 16 2005

Juventus and French legend Michel Platini yesterday revealed just how close he came to joining Spurs or Arsenal back in 1982. So close in fact his wife was set on a move to London and although in the end he went to Italy and fame with Juventus, he admitted to a case of what if?

Speaking to Reuters: "I had proposals from English clubs like Arsenal and Tottenham and my wife wanted to go to London."

"But I decided against it because you play too many games in England, and I went to Italy."

"When you don't have a winter break, you can't be at your highest level when the spring comes."

"Actually, you are injury prone and the team cannot be at its best. You don't have such a heavy schedule in Italy. In five years in Serie A, I was never injured."

“But there is still a small part of me that wonders what it would life in England would have been like.”