Happy Henry hopes goals will make Madrid get Real
Henry has lost count of the number of times that he has stated his desire to stay at Arsenal, admitting he is rather "bored" by the whole issue.
However, those question marks over his future were again raised when Real coach Carlos Queiroz revealed Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy to be his main summer transfer targets.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was angry at Real's public attempts to unsettle his leading scorer, accusing them of lacking "class."
Henry simply went to great pains to stress yet again just how happy he is at Arsenal, where he has just scored his 100th and 101st Premiership goals.
"Of course it's nice to hear that people talk about you. But I've made it clear so many times that I'm happy here, that it's about time that people put it in their brain.
"I'm getting bored now. What else can I say? What else can I show? I can only say it even more I'm happy at Arsenal and you can see it out there on the pitch.
"This is what I've always dreamed about. What else can you want than that? I'm playing for people that love me and doing well and the team is doing well. The fans sing my name all the time. When I was young, that was all I wanted in life. All I wanted was to be recognised as a footballer.
"As soon as the referee blows the whistle, I'm the happiest man in the world. I'm not happy when I'm outside the pitch. I'm happy on the pitch here playing for a good team.
"Why would I swap that? That's what I'm trying to explain to people. I'm happy here. Full stop." You might have thought that agreeing to an interview in one of Spain's leading newspapers last week, with a headline along the lines of "read my lips, I'm not going to play for Madrid" would have done the trick.
Not so, it would seem. But Henry said: "It takes more than that to bother me. You can always talk and talk, but you can see that I'm happy here and I'm doing all the time everything I can to make my team win."
Henry's first league goal also came against Southampton back in September 1999, when he was still struggling to make the transition into a striker.
"I was hitting the top of the stand more than the top of the net then. It's down to commitment and desire, I think," he said.
"I have a lot of self-confidence and you also need that if you want to reach this kind of thing. Without my team-mates, the fans and the boss, it would have been difficult too.
"Everyone was nice with me when I was not scoring and not showing what I could do, so things come around. Now it seems that I'm scoring a lot so it's good for the team."
Henry is certainly appreciated by his team-mates, with captain Patrick Vieira paying tribute to him.
"Thierry is the perfect example of how you must work if you want to be successful," he said. "He worked really hard in front of goal and now looks as if he is going to score in every single game. At the moment, he is the best player in the world."
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