Cesc Fabregas’s days at the Emirates look numbered after Barcelona made their first official offer for the Arsenal skipper earlier in the week.
Though a reported £27 million bid was rejected, Barca are apparently ready to offer around £35 million for their former starlet in the upcoming weeks – this is not that far away from Arsenal’s £45 million valuation of their star player.
I would surely want as much as possible for Cesc Fabregas so that Arsenal as a club, don’t lose out. But for one, Wenger will find it hard to replace his captain in spite of his huge transfer budget. That’s because there are very few who have the quality that the 24-year-old has. Some might say that Samir Nasri is a more than capable replacement for the Spaniard, But, quite frankly, anyone with decent football knowledge will agree that Cesc is much better than his team-mate. The French maestro, who has only one year remaining on his current deal, is undoubtedly a fantastic player and has definitely developed over the last year. However, Fabregas is just phenomenal, and his consistency over the past five years are signs of a player destined for greatness (I hope it’s with Arsenal!).
When Fabregas joined Arsenal in 2003 as a 16-year-old, the Gunners were a successful team, and trophies were not scarce at Highbury. The Spaniard joined a team of players who were all regarded as club legends – Henry, Vieira, Bergkamp, Pires, the list goes on. Fabregas has always spoken of his admiration of these stalwarts and how he looked up to them in his early days in England. But as years went by, Arsenal’s move to the Emirates, and the huge debt incurred in the process, meant Arsenal had to depend on young talent to survive as a club. Evidently, the responsibility fell on the young shoulders of the midfielder, and I don’t think he failed to live up to it as some say.
Now the question arises whether Cesc Fabregas deserves to be classified a club legend if he leaves the club? He hasn’t won anything as a captain and has been a part of Arsenal’s six year trophy drought, which doesn’t bold well.
Cesc can’t be compared with say Vieira … different sort of player. But YES …. a great young creative player he is as good as Liam Brady – who also left the club in his prime. Cesc has also given 100% for the Arsenal. He does care very much.
He can’t be call a legend but i wish a he stay for a yr.
RVP is a legend but not Cesc. RVP truly loves this club and has worked on youth projects with bergkamp in the london area. That shows a certain level of commitment for me. Cesc has no attachments really and i dont think he wants anything that holds him here; he cannot be a legend simply because Arsenal isnt his number 1 club, barca is. When you are still at Arsenal and you always put a club who didnt think you would amount to much and who still think that u are “worth less”/worthless xD than Villa who wasnt born in Catalonia then u cannot in my book be regarded as a legend.
Legends are ususally made up by old blokes like me who are more comfortable with the days when they were in their prime. With the ridiculous salaries players today get it`s hard to cast any one of them in the mould of `a legend`. “Now when I was a lad” haha!
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