"We met in the summer of 2018 and we started chatting but I do not follow football so I had no idea who he was," Sacha Wright, who dated ex-
Arsenal boss Unai Emery for two years, said in an interview with The Sun.
"He told me he worked in the sports industry and his English was bad as he’d just moved to London.
"He asked me out but said he didn’t want to meet anywhere too busy. He asked me to go to his house in Barnet but I told him no, absolutely not.
"We agreed to meet at an Italian restaurant in Hampstead. When we arrived, I realised he must be someone important as even though the restaurant was about to close, they kept it open.
"He had a heavy accent. He would regularly stop the conversation so he could check words on Google Translate on his phone, but I found him attractive from the moment we met.
"He dressed well and seemed like a really nice guy. He joked that I could be his English teacher."
Sacha dumped Unai last September just two months before he was given the boot by Arsenal.
She took him back in December but added: “It was then that he blamed me for getting him the sack. He told me I was a white witch as I had brought him so much bad luck.
“He said, ‘It was the day we broke up that we started to lose’.
“He told me he was so stressed out that his mind wasn’t in the right place after we separated.”