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Ian Holyman, France correspondent 6y

Chelsea's Olivier Giroud: I wish I'd won Premier League title at Arsenal

Olivier Giroud has told SFR Sport he feels he had "unfinished business" at Arsenal after failing to win the Premier League title.

Giroud left the Gunners after five-and-a-half years to join Chelsea in January after dropping down the pecking order following the arrival of strikers Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

The France international, who has made a bright start to life at Stamford Bridge, told former Chelsea and Arsenal defender William Gallas he would have loved to have crossed London as a Premier League winner.

"I don't know if we can really call it a regret but I have a little feeling of unfinished business because I would really have liked to have won the Premier League with Arsenal," the 31-year-old, part of the squad that finished third in 2014-15 and runners-up to Leicester City the following season, said.

"You don't just wipe away five-and-a-half years like that. I have said it often enough -- it was my ultimate goal.

"Having said that, it's not over, I'm still in the Premier League, now I'm at Chelsea. For this year, I think it's over for the title, but next year, we'll come to it with great ambitions.

"I still want to win it before I end my career."

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