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An open letter from Danielle van de Donk

Honestly, I never thought I would stay at Arsenal for six years.

It's so rare that footballers stay in one place for so long - and I know that all too well. When I arrived at Arsenal in 2015, I'd just come from Sweden and I'd only actually played there for four or five months.

Gothenburg was a great city but it was my first adventure abroad, outside of the Netherlands, and I found it a lot harder than I expected it to be, being away from home. But then Arsenal came in and I knew I wasn't ready to go back to the Netherlands just yet.