Robin van Persie has opened up on the controversial comments he made after his move to Manchester United from Arsenal.
The Dutchman famously left the Emirates Stadium in 2012 and joined the Reds for a fee of around £24million.
Van Persie was Arsenal’s club captain at the time and ended the 2011/12 season as the Premier League's top goalscorer.
Understandably, the move was met with wide spread anger from the Gunners faithful, with that anger growing when Van Persie famously revealed that the "little boy" inside him urged him to join United.
And now Van Persie, who has always maintained that had the club offered him a new contract and matched his ambitions to win a Premier League title he would have probably stayed at the Emirates, has addressed the comments he made at his unveiling press conference.
“Yes, maybe I should have chosen different words,” he told Sky Italia's "The Lords of Football" segment.
"I didn’t want to upset anyone, I was just trying to explain why I made that decision to win and to accept this challenge.”
Before adding: “When it ends that way, when you go to the enemy’s side, you must try to do your best, be fit, there is nothing but trying to win. Failure to do so is a failure.
“When I realised that I had taken that step, I was extremely focused. I played 38 games and scored 26 goals, but all I did was train, go home, eat and sleep. I acted and lived like a machine. Just for that.
"It was my only goal.
"It was all about us winning. Being with the likes of Rooney, Giggs, Carrick, Scholes, Ferguson… all this made it happen."