Arshavin blaming translation for Barcelona ‘career pinnacle’ comments

ARSENAL’s Andrey Arshavin has rowed back on comments that joining Barcelona would be “the pinnacle of my career”.

His coach Arsène Wenger was sceptical about the validity of the quotes and Arshavin claimed last night: “I am often translated wrongly. If I talk to the English press, there is no problem but when I say something in Russia, some special news agency takes it, translates it and sells these quotes.

“During the process of interpretation they translate my words as they see fit. I find this unpleasant because people might think I said something that, in fact, I never said.”