INF Clairefontaine
Training center in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, FranceWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
DrewPANELIST
I was sold
JWSPANELIST
because, you know, at the whole Clairefontaine Academy thing, you know, Gerard Hulé was architect of it all.
JWSPANELIST
So we thought, he's going to get us all the good French players, but Arsenal may get all the good French players, but we just got guns.
JWSPANELIST
Crazy.
David PleatGUEST
Or because he's an outsider in a strange way, he was a foreigner among the English players, that they aren't able to settle.
David PleatGUEST
If you look at the Arsenal group, when we compare with Wenger, his success after the League Cup, He had that influx of French players that he knew from Clairefontaine that came in, the very good French players, Overmars, Petit, Vieira, Anelka.
David PleatGUEST
They were the players that set Arsenal on their way.
David PleatGUEST
Three or four very, very good signings at very good prices because he knew the foreign market very well.