Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal have been hurt by leaving Highbury.

Frenchman Wenger was the Gunners' manager when they upped sticks and moved 500 metres from their historic home at Highbury to their futuristic Emirates in 2006.

"I moved from Highbury, which was similar to Anfield, but there was a soul in the stadium," Wenger told beIN Sports.

"We built a new stadium but we never found our soul - we left our soul at Highbury.

"We could never recreate it for security reasons.

"The distance from the pitch to the stand had to be bigger as we needed ambulances to come in. The inclination of the stands had to be smaller all those things together that we didn't find to recreate the atmosphere."