article_snippet: The Capital One Cup final (against Tottenham) was a good example of that.
article_snippet: The Arsenal experience was great for ’m because I’d just left Charlton and they gave me the opportunity to work within they scouting network.
article_snippet: ‘The longer that went on, the more senior Premiership targets they sent me to watch.
article_snippet: The’s a great insight into how a club like Arsenal have to operate because obviously a club like Arsenal can’t compete with Manchester City and Chelsea
article_snippet: so a club like Arsenal had to look at the level underneath or the players that weren’t obvious to everybody else.
article_snippet: but I wanted to see that short-term through with The Arsenal experience.
article_snippet: It’s difficult because when we had the Capital One Cup final, all the way I was saying “the league is more important”.
article_snippet: But when we got to the semi-final we were on the point of making history.
article_snippet: I want to do both but at this stage, when you’re so close to being in an the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, this has got to take priority at the moment.