Thierry Henry [Images] would love to return to former club Arsenal in some capacity in the future, the Barcelona striker said on Wednesday.

"It does not matter what will happen with my new team, I'll never find the affection I was shown at Arsenal," Henry told Sky television (www.skylife.it).

"In part that's because I don't think my legs will let me play for another club for eight years.

"You always return to the place you belong to and so I hope one day to be able to work with that club. I have this club in my blood."

The 30-year-old said he had followed Arsenal's games since leaving for Spain in the close season.

"I'm proud to have played for Arsenal and to be a fan of theirs," he added. "Before I was not a fan of any club, but I have become an Arsenal fan and it's difficult for me to not watch their matches".

Henry also said that he left Juventus for the Premier League side in 1999 because of a fall-out with the Turin club's disgraced former general manager Luciano Moggi.

"Something happened with Moggi that I didn't like, I don't want to go into the details," he said

"I'm an honest lad and for me it was a disrespectful thing. I would probably have continued to play at Juventus. But after that lack of respect, I told them I didn't want to play there any more and I left".

Moggi, who has been banned from soccer for five years, was at the centre of the match-fixing scandal that led to Juventus' demotion to the second division last year. Juve won promotion back to the top flight last season.

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