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Only Fabregas & Nasri know where their futures lie

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Don’t believe me…I don’t know what I’m talking about. A frank admission, I’m sure you’d agree. But it turns out that I haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about when it comes to football, especially when it comes to Arsenal.

Though it seems that there are plenty of other websites out there who would have you believe that they know exactly what is going on at every football club in the country, nay the world.

Reports yesterday suggested that Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri are off, following want-away defender Gael Clichy out the Emirates fire escape. Apparently, someone has been using a mind scanning machine to work out exactly what the two aforementioned midfielders are thinking regarding their futures. Apparently, they both want out. That’s what the mind scanning device says.

This may well be the case. I’m not suggesting that they want to stay. Frankly, I don’t really care. If they go we’ll replace them and life will carry on.

Cesc (understandably) wants to play for Barcelona, whether it’s this season, the next or even the one after that, he’ll be gone soon enough. Nobody could begrudge him a move to his boyhood club, the club he supported as a child and the club where many of his friends ply their trade.

Nasri is pushing for a wage increase; he’s playing hardball with the club. It’s true he’s doing it very publicly (a la Rooney) and we (the fans) don’t like that. It’s out of our control and it seems like he’s taking the pee, but at the end of the day he’s a professional and if he doesn’t get the wages he deserves (that he could easily get elsewhere) then he’s a muppet. I hope we pay him. However, I won’t hate him if he does go, purely for the fact that we didn’t offer him enough cash.

These last two paragraphs are my interpretations of recent events. They might be wrong, but I think they’re pretty close to the truth. However, I don’t really know. I’m not friends with Nasri or Cesc, I don’t have a mind scanning device, and I haven’t tapped their phones. It’s an educated guess.

What’s getting on my nerves is the amount of rubbish that websites are peddling regarding our club. Some of it may be true (I’m sure a portion of it is), but a vast majority of it is pure fiction. The nonsense that is being written in the name of getting hits and selling sheets is starting to border on ridiculous. I don’t mind speculation, but more and more of it is being sold to us as the truth.

Arsenal are a big club, but there are bigger clubs out there. That’s why every season we have to deal with speculation regarding our best players. They are coveted across the planet because of their technical ability and their skills on the ball. Until we’ve paid off the mortgage on the Emirates we’re a little bit hamstrung, financially speaking. This will continue. Eventually we’ll be able to compete with the other big clubs when it comes to wages and transfers, but until then we’re going to have to keep playing it tight.

There are so many opinions out there posing as fact regarding the future of our club. However, it’s my abiding memory that Arsene Wenger is pretty good at keeping players, if he really wants to.

It doesn’t always work out, I realise this, but I doubt that both our star midfielders will leave this summer. Still, I don’t really know whether Cesc or Nasri will be playing for the Arsenal at the start of the new season. But I promise you, nobody else knows either.

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8 comments

  • mike matthews says:

    Great post, and you are correct with everything you have stated. Except for one small detail…..there is no bigger club than Arsenal! 😉

  • Omaj says:

    No arsenal player is bigger dan d club. If anyone want to go let him go. I bliv we can only win trophies if we play players dat love d club. Not those dat will flop at d quarter end of d season like Nasri & fab

  • shafiu says:

    What u said is true. But allowing our potential players whom their replacement is not easy is not good idea. Give them all what they want to retain them. Is it not money they want?

  • Olanrewaju Taiwo(a.k.a. Wenger) says:

    Wenger is only interested in the money that comes into arsenal by selling players. But instead of buying players of quality for replacements, he prefers to buy low quality ones.

  • Tina says:

    You guys need to know that Wenger is a shrewd business man .He knows transfer dealings much better than other managers out there .I think if players want to leave the club or have no desire to play for the club they should go .

    I have never believed that Fabregas ha the qualities needed to captain Arsenal at a time we needed to grow our playing style and transform it into trophies . I think he is not mentally strong thats why he always leans to want to move .He came to Arsenal to prove to Barca that he could become big enough to play for them .I don’t think he truly had the desire to stay at Arsenal and that is my problem with him . I think Wenger sat him down and told him all the facts about why Barca let him go to Arsenal , and if he had not been moulded by Wenger into the player he is Barca would not be interested in him . He should know very well that Barca will keep unearthing good players and he might end up not making a big impact at Barca as what they all want him to think he will .

    On the other end Wenger told him that if Barca really want you then they shouldn’t have a problem paying a transfer fee that meets his valuation . As for Nasri if he wants to leave then he should just go because he is simply not loyal to the club or has the desire to play for the club. What Arsenal need are players with the desire to play for the club because the style of football Wenger wants to create requires a lot of hardworking players determined to make the club reach its goals.

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