Thierry Henry has expressed his delight at being unveiled as a Barcelona player.

The Frenchman completed his £16.1million move from Arsenal on Monday after successfully coming through a medical at Camp Nou.

Henry, who has signed a four-year deal at Barca, was overjoyed to make the move to the Spanish giants and he hopes he can be a success at the club.

"I am really pleased to be here," said Henry.

"It has been a long chase but I'm finally here and happy to be here and I can't wait to go out there and show what I can do to the fans

"Hopefully I can be a great asset for the team.

"I haven't set any targets or objectives. It has to be a club target.

" Barcelona is always a club that wants to win everything. I am going to try my hardest to help as much as I can.

"It has to be a team effort right from the start."

Henry admitted he hopes to finally win a UEFA Champions League winners' medal at Barcelona after missing out on one at Arsenal.

"I have to live and breathe Barcelona," added Henry. "It is a dream for everyone to win the Champions League and I'm sure it will be the dream of Barcelona to win it again next season.

"It is the only thing I didn't win [at Arsenal] but the most important thing is that Barcelona is successful and they win silverware."

Henry hopes the Arsenal fans can understand his decision to leave Emirates Stadium.

I have to show respect to Arsenal that's why before I left I wentto talk to the website. I wanted to be genuine and speak the truth.

"Hopefully they will appreciate what I have done there and I have certainly enjoyed my time over there.

"I always said that if I ever left Arsenal it would have been to play for Barcelona. I am here right now, no disrespect to anybody but that was my choice.

"The way Barcelona play football, the fans, just being here and seeing what I'm noticing right now, it's outstanding. It was always in my mind if I was going to leave it would be for Barcelona Football Club."

Henry admitted that there will no rivalry with Samuel Eto'o as both players battle for a place in Barca's side next season as he revealed he is close friends with the Cameroon star.

"The relationship I have with Samuel is from a long time ago," noted Henry.

"I know a lot of players in the team but on top of that Samuel and I have been really close in the past two years.

"He came to see me at my house when I got injured a few months ago and I came to see him when he he had an operation (in the early part of last season).

"I know you guys (the media) would not like us not to be friends but we are friends."