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LONDON. — Arsene Wenger has revealed he could’ve quit Arsenal last season if the Gunners didn’t get their hands on the FA Cup.

The Frenchman successfully guided the north Londoners to their first trophy in eight years last May when they recorded 3-2 victory over Hull at Wembley.

The triumph over the Tigers was a vital one for the Gunners — who have the chance to retain the trophy next week.

Wenger (65) was under immense pressure to land the cup due to the club’s lack of silverware.

And the former Monaco chief has admitted he could’ve walked away from the Emirates if he had failed to land the cup.

“Maybe. I have the luck. I’ve won it five times with Arsenal,” he told beIN Sports.

“I know how big it is and how important it is but it is one game. On the other hand, you have to be serious when you’ve been at the club for seventeen or eighteen years.

“We should not, just on one game, a cup final, considered to be leaving for that but it’s what people want.

“We are in a job where we have to accept that we are on a permanent tribunal now and on every single game you are judged and you have to accept it and live with it but still, you know what is great in our job?

“You have to believe in what is great in our game and the values that football can carry and the pleasure that we can give to people through the game and we have to focus on that.

“It’s still a great day and a moment that you can enjoy together and it has to be like that.”

Wenger has also revealed he is prepared to go on a spending spree this summer.

Wenger is understood to have a larger transfer kitty available to at the end of the season.

The former Monaco chief, who is on course to retain the FA Cup, has been linked with moves for a number of players in recent months.

And the Frenchman has admitted he will strengthen his squad this summer in order to mount a sustained challenge for the Premier League title next season.

“We are ready to spend the money for players who strengthen our team. There is a difference in that and just spending money,” Wenger told beIN Sports.

“If I ask you who has spent the most money this last season and if I give you last season, and the season before, it is never the teams who have won the championship.

“If for example we got a player like Coquelin, if we had bought Coquelin for £40m in December, because he started to play in December, everybody would say, ‘What a buy! What a great player!’, but the fact that he comes out from our own club and plays, everybody says you still have to buy a player in his position. — The Daily Star.