Source: Daily_Mail
Arsenal ace Arshavin drops quit bombshell: 'I don't want to play football'
Arsenal playmaker Andrey Arshavin is having trouble adjusting back to club life after missing out on a place at the World Cup with Russia. [LNB]Guus Hiddink's Euro 2008 semi-finalists saw their hopes of reaching South Africa crushed by Slovenia earlier this month, and Arshavin is struggling to move on. [LNB]Quit threat: Unhappy Arsenal ace Andrey Arshavin[LNB]'I'm inconsolable and desolate at what's happened,' said Arshavin [LNB]'My family keep telling me I should forget it as soon as possible, that I should now switch to club matters and the Champions League, but that's easier said than done. [LNB]'Nothing has revived me so far. [LNB]'When Arsene Wenger asked me what state I was in, I honestly told him that at the moment I just don't want to play football. [LNB]'He talked to me for a long time. He said, too, that I need to switch my attention. But I can't do it yet.' [LNB]Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, whose side host Chelsea in the Barclays Premier League on Sunday, admitted the player was not in the right frame of mind to start in last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Sunderland. [LNB]'He came back from Slovenia very down and that's the main reason I didn't play him from the start against Sunderland,' said the Frenchman. [LNB] EXCLUSIVE: Cesc Fabregas - Arsenal's genius reveals why he will not sign for Barcelona, the fight to overcome his demons - and the slur that haunts himArsenal injury crisis deepens as Gibbs is ruled out for three months The big managers with their memories of the big derbiesARSENAL FC
