As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
OneBardGooner wrote:Mong played really well on saturday - well in the MOTD highlights and he was Motm - However that's where it ends - As someone rightly stated selling him for mega profit was great business....BUT one of wenker's greatest errors was Not seizing on the opportunity to re-sign Fabregas who is a world class player who would make a real difference to Any team - especially one that struggles to score, to open defences and who can take a game by the scruff of the neck and change it - especially whilst the manager sits on the sidelines waving his feckin' arms about like a lobotomised windmill and doing feck all else but whinge and moan at the 4th official.
On Cesc. He has been absolutely great for Chelski this season. He plays deeper and is perfect on keeping the right rhythm and timing in their attacking game. He has the ability to slow game down when needed and open very fast counter attacks when needed. He's timing with his passing game seems to be exactly right at the moment.
To put him into Arsenal team to the same position and same responsibilities would probably do wonders. Our attacking is nothing but slow motion attempts to do something (and nobody in the squad seems to know exactly what).
All it proves is that not re instating Cesc had no footballing value purely the decision of a man scorned. Augie on another thread says that as we did not address the big defensive midfield position we failed in the market. It is time to realise that in his vision Wenger does not want one. He wants a deep lying playmaker which is why he utilises Arteta to do that role . Recently he has put Flamini next to him to shore things up. In reality though if he used Ramsey as his box to box player a player of Cesc';s class would have found the deep lying position an absolute doddle . Pride before a fall.
From 365:
"Cesc Fabregas' ninth assist of the campaign - which set up Oscar's stunning strike - takes him to within two of Arsenal's total. It's quite incredible that he's still running so close to the Gunners' squad after a quarter of the season has passed."
Anyone left of a sane mind still defending that ludicrous decision to not bring him back? He's better than ALL our midfielders put together. Another stackable offence gifting him to Jose
Ikechukwu1 wrote:From 365:
"Cesc Fabregas' ninth assist of the campaign - which set up Oscar's stunning strike - takes him to within two of Arsenal's total. It's quite incredible that he's still running so close to the Gunners' squad after a quarter of the season has passed."
Anyone left of a sane mind still defending that ludicrous decision to not bring him back? He's better than ALL our midfielders put together. Another stackable offence gifting him to Jose
Ikechukwu1 wrote:From 365:
"Cesc Fabregas' ninth assist of the campaign - which set up Oscar's stunning strike - takes him to within two of Arsenal's total. It's quite incredible that he's still running so close to the Gunners' squad after a quarter of the season has passed."
Anyone left of a sane mind still defending that ludicrous decision to not bring him back? He's better than ALL our midfielders put together. Another stackable offence gifting him to Jose
After he gifted Jose the best left back in European football for the worst captain in our history + £5m nothing surprises me. The fact we'd already gifted him to Barcelona for £27m when he was still tied to a long term contract should also mean nobody is at all surprised by this latest episode.
However, he has gone and will not be back (well not until he's 36 and Wenger declares that he has 'always been an Arsenal boy' and is 'only training with the club.....but we will see')
He will turn up with a sheepish look at our place and then run the show as they stroll to a 2-0 victory. Not sure who will be more embarrassed, us or him.
Ikechukwu1 wrote:From 365:
"Cesc Fabregas' ninth assist of the campaign - which set up Oscar's stunning strike - takes him to within two of Arsenal's total. It's quite incredible that he's still running so close to the Gunners' squad after a quarter of the season has passed."
Anyone left of a sane mind still defending that ludicrous decision to not bring him back? He's better than ALL our midfielders put together. Another stackable offence gifting him to Jose
At Chelsea he supplies the passes for decent strikers though,how would his stats look supplying Sonogo and Campbell,Giroud and Wellbeck?
flash gunner wrote:
What was the point of having a first option to re-sign him clause in his contract and not using it?
I think that it is looking more and more obvious that Fabregas didnt want to come back.
the sad thing is that had we got a new manager in this season he might well have returned...
A11M11 wrote:How ever do you reach that conclusion Rob ? I have read nothing either here or in Spain to indicate that.
Didn't Wenger say something to the effect of Fabregas ending up where he wanted to go?
He implied that Fabregas wanted to join Chelsea, not Arsenal, and even went so far as to say he thought the deal had been in place since early this year.
Now, there's no way to know the validity of this, but it's certainly conceivable that a player would prefer to join Chelsea over us.
