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But I think he's trying to explain that. He felt he wasn't being treated well at Spurs. He thinks mediocre players were being paid three times as much as he was (and I've got no reason to doubt that). He felt the club was a bit of a shambles and changed manager too often. Those are all things that Arsenal were not at the time. They all seem like reasonable complaints to me from an ambitious footballer. So he went to them and he didn't really owe us a transfer fee, which reflects more on the mismanagement of Spurs at the time than it does on him.
So I think a lot of people seem pretty animated still that he left, who he left for, and the fact that he left for free (thereby leveraging his own deal upward). Sheringham said the same thing about Spurs when he went to United for a pittance - Spurs was too slap-dash and moving on for the best terms possible was a smart decision for a player.
Read the link that @MattyP put up. He just lied constantly to the us and the club. In addition it is where he went, at that stage of his career he could have pretty much picked which club he went to next and still he chose to go to Arsenal despite knowing full well what the response would be.