Arsene Wenger has expressed his latest thoughts on the Cesc Fabregas saga and has challenged the Spaniard to lead the club to glory next year.
This seems a very different message compared to last season when the Frenchman stated that Cesc was not going to be sold at any price. Wenger told the Daily Mirror yesterday:
‘I expect him to be here and I will fight very hard to keep him here. You always have to fight when you have a player of that quality, you must always fight to keep your players, of course. What guarantees you that if you go somewhere else you will win trophies? The biggest pride for a captain is to be committed to his club and deliver trophies with his team.’
Many players have left Arsenal over the years, and very few have gone on to do anything on a large scale.
Thierry Henry, who will forever be remembered as one of the greatest players, if not the greatest player to ever wear the Arsenal Shirt, is probably the only one in recent memory that has left the North London club and has been a success. However this is Cesc Fabregas, and he has one thing that Thierry Henry didn’t have and that is age on his side. Fabregas is still only 24 -years-old, Thierry Henry was 29 when he left the Gunners – a five year difference is a lot. Wenger continued by saying:
‘A player who changes his club every time he is frustrated or when he doesn’t win a trophy, goes nowhere. I believe the quality of sports life is to be committed to his club and not just to move out when it does not go as well as you expected.’
In my opinion Arsene Wenger’s latest comments towards Fabregas is to remind the midfielder that several players have left the club, but gone on to do nothing with their careers. I think it shows not only a very clever move on Wenger’s part, but also a sign of desperation, as it will no doubt play in Fabregas’ mind.
The anwser is plain and simply NO! I don’t think his career would go down the train. The fact is he is too good a player and good easy fit into Barca’s first team. He is only 24 and I think he could develop into an even better player then he is now.
Arsenal are going nowhere.
The thing is with every other player they wanted out for more money or whatever. Even henry wanted to leave to win titles and not a rebuilding project.
Fab loves arsenal…the fact is barcelona are crying for him. and if they pay 40 million for him its not for the bench as everyone thinks. Cesc will start and i can see why guardiola wants him.
He is a born winner. You give him an opportunity and he’ll will the game.
If arsene had surrounded him with a team he would be leading them. watch how he wins the barcelona fans over in a few games…his passing and vision are amazing. Even Xavi and paul scholes and even zidane were not that amazing at his age.
He is the messi of midfield. and he can only get better
so who does guardiola drop to the bench if Cesc starts, iniesta or xavi? neither, cesc will be sitting on the sidelines and playing as an impact sub if barca do get him
Fabregas has been part of the reasons why Arsenal collapsed in big games .He seems to fade in those tight matches and his decision to play at Nou Camp despite being unfit cost us the 1st goal and then the whole mood in the team changed. A captain does not lead that way .And it feeds into the team and thats why the fighting spirit was lost at Nou Camp. And thats when Arsenal’s season started to collapse .
He seemed not to care about winning league games after that and the whole team realised that . He came out and started talking about Arsene Wenger being lucky not be sacked when the team had a shout to win the league . No captain ever said that in Arsenal’s history . These gave the team a serious handicap ,and fed the message that it was not the players issue but a manager issue . Committment in the team was at an all time low and I blame him for being an unfocused and dispirited captain .
I think he should go to Barca , Wilshere & Nasri can play that attacking role or we can replace the vacant midfield role with robust box-to-box midfielders like Jack Rodwell , Marouane Fellaini , Scott Parker . The team will have some solidity in the midfield and height .Wilshere and Nasri can only improve their creativity in that role .