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“I felt that the last two, three years of my life were a bit coming and going, and not really knowing what’s going to happen next season. So I’m very happy to finally be here for the next four years at least. This season, we are finding it quite tough to find our feet at the moment but it’s a top club, with top players and top support we have got over here,” Bellerin said.

The 28-year-old played under Arsene Wenger for the majority of his career at the club, playing with the likes of Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez and Bukayo Saka. He admits he misses his former team-mates and the backroom staff too.

“From the players, obviously Bukayo (Saka), Eddie (Nketiah), Gabi (Martinelli) - I’ve shared loads of moments with them, and I’ve seen Bukayo and Reiss (Nelson) go through the ranks. To me, I feel very proud of them. But it’s also the staff, the people that have been there since I moved into the first team at 18 years old.”

“Leaving Arsenal was such a tough decision. A lot of people felt like I really wanted to leave that place, but it was just a change of cycle for me because I love Arsenal. I loved my time over there, I loved the staff, the support I always got there, and playing at the Emirates for me every weekend was a dream. I just felt like at that time of my life, this was more what I needed,” he said.

Bellerin also played alongside current manager Mikel Arteta during his career at the club. Both joined Arsenal in 2011 and became close in their relationship on and off the pitch. Arteta then went on to manage Bellerin at Arsenal before his move to Barcelona.

“Mikel is such a great coach. He’s been my team-mate and he was great. He’s a wonderful coach and I’m glad they’re finding the way to play that the coach has always wanted. He’s found the right players and he’s found the support from the fans again,”

“The transition from Wenger’s Arsenal to the Arsenal we have now needed a lot of time. It needed different coaches, needed different players, and needed its own identity because Arsenal always had its own identity under Wenger. It’s difficult to play under that identity when you don’t really have that reference, or you don’t have those players. So sometimes things need to switch, and you need to play different football,” said Bellerin.

Arteta’s side finished second last season, with only five points separating them from league winners Manchester City. Bellerin believes his former team-mate is ever-evolving and will make sure his side is better this season going forward.

"He’s a coach that is always constantly learning and I think that’s what’s good about him. He’s able to adapt and learn from his mistakes. He’s able to become a new Arteta every season.

“Since he was a player, he was already coaching some of us. You could see he had great ideas and I remember he used to talk to us about how he thinks the game would go and how we should press and stuff like this and it was great. We all knew that at some point he would step up and be a manager.” the Spain international said.

Bellerin trusts that the style of football Arsenal are now playing will help them lift the Premier League trophy one day and that the players are on the right path to success.

"Very young players in that team now have a lot of experience, like Bukayo himself, and I think that was one of the things that they were missing that now they have.

“So, I’m sure that every year is just going to be a better one for them and I think that’s where Arsenal Football club deserve to be, for sure.”

Selected context from the News:

Kai featured regularly against us during his three years at Stamford Bridge. So, what were his first impressions of Arsenal?

“From outside, Arsenal always looked like a family,” he says. “That’s the feeling I got when playing. And when I joined, that was exactly what it was like, and the staff are really nice too – and that makes life easier for a new player.

“From the first minute that I spoke to Mikel about joining Arsenal, I had this feeling that he respects all of us very much, so that was also a big part of me joining the club. I just felt the togetherness of the club from the players and especially within the fans and the whole club.

“At the training ground it’s like a big family – and this is a big factor to achieve great things.”

Kai, who was a team-mate of Jorginho at Chelsea, has seen his integration into our first-team dressing room has been aided by no shortage of friendly faces.

“Before I joined, I spoke a lot with Declan Rice as well, who I know through Mason Mount,” he says. “For me it was very easy to come into the team because there are so many young players. I’ve played against a lot of them already so I know them from the pitch, and I have found it easy to make friends here. Hopefully it will continue like this.”

Declan Rice’s selected comment on his price tag:

“It’s £100 million, it’s a lot of money, I could understand the pressure that comes with it. Not only the pressure you put on yourself but there’s an expectation of being bought for that much money. People need to see performances straight away. I want to re-pay the club straight away, they have invested a lot of money in me, I need to prove why I can go there and change things. I can see why Jack struggled maybe at the start – mentally. He was a £100 million footballer but as he wasn’t playing as much, it was probably as bit different for him. Now he’s flying and it’s the same for me.”

Jorginho opened up about his future while on international duty with Italy and said: “I’m very much in doubt, I would like to return but I don’t know when the right time would be. I want to return yes, but I don’t know when, I feel I still have things to do at Arsenal. It always takes time when you change teams, but the first six months at Arsenal were not negative, on the contrary.”

“Obviously, it takes time to understand the mechanisms better, Arteta gives you a billion pieces of information but I’m very happy there,” he said.

“I have grown a lot on the pitch, in experience. I changed teams, coaches, therefore more information. I understood the game even more and how to compete. Competing does not just mean playing well, but also comes from experience. And this I try to pass this experience on to my teammates too.”