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How a chance meeting saw Thierry Henry sign for us

When Thierry Henry first arrived at Arsenal on this day in 1999, few would have thought he would go on to become our greatest-ever goalscorer, and the best striker in the world - but things could have been very different.

The year before, the Frenchman found himself at a crossroads in his career - playing as a winger and makeshift wing-back for Juventus. But a chance meeting with Arsène Wenger changed the course of history.

"A few years after Arsène left Monaco, he came to watch a game between Juventus and Udinese that I played in," Henry reflected in 2018.