http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...dious-transfer (an already posted article) sums my opinion up fairly well.
want him to have a long time, frustrated on the bench at Barca, and if that makes him happy - i take back my bitterness.
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http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...dious-transfer (an already posted article) sums my opinion up fairly well.
want him to have a long time, frustrated on the bench at Barca, and if that makes him happy - i take back my bitterness.
I'm still catching up with this fuck up of a summer. I have pencilled in my official response to the Fabregas fiasco for the 21st Aug.
Yes you need to have a waiting period of course, it's customary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Less bothered about him going then i was with Henry and Paddy v, at least with them you felt they loved the club when they left.Quote:
Originally Posted by sameer nasri
He's been a scum bag who should have not been a pussy and admitted he wanted out instead of getting his boyfriends to do it for him. Lost respect for him in the last 2 seasons.
Indifferent.
The writing has been on the wall for over a year so it's not exactly breaking news tonight. I said my mental goodbyes a long time ago.
Good luck to him, I hope he succeeds.
I may also go for an "in-between" attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Don't blame him for leaving. The manager and board have shown no ambition for five years - why WOULD you stay if you were him?
What pisses me off is:
a.) the fee - for all the tough talk, it looks like we were bent over and roundly buggered by Barcelona.
b.) the timing - given we capitulated on the transfer fee, why didn't we capitulate in June? What did hanging around prove?
c.) the failure of any sort of proactive response from the management - everyone in the world knew he was off, why the hell haven't we got a replacement in?
I wish him all the best on the Barcelona bench. I'm sure he'll have a better time there than playing with the fuckwits he's been surrounded with for the past couple of years.
Yes. All three.
Glad it's over after the drawn out saga, disappointed to see him go but happy to see us (possibly) enter a new era.
I'm indifferent, as someone said nothing like losing Vieira or Henry, the writing has been on the wall for a while, surprised he didn't leave last summer to be honest.
Bit sad about what's happening at the club though, really does seem like we're a sinking ship at the moment, would love to see a few players come in so we can get some hope back.
Are you forgetting Marvin Martin?Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
Pissed off it took this long and we STILL got a shit fee
WTF?
Still £35mill, not to be sniffed at. Pays off a lot of stadium debt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironing
Sorry my bad, the CL and PL double could well be heading our way at long last!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Will also buy a few extra cigars for PHW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Bitter at the club for pointlessly making this last 2 months.
Happy that the cuntalonian has finally fucked off.
Angry that there doesnt seem to be any sign of us replacing him.
Well thank Allah for that. I wonder what value they placed on Cesc when they factored him in to the stadium plans? 60m?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
shame he's gone, you never want to lose your best players and such talent, and his absence has already been noticeable.
if he wasn't leaving at the time of big worry for a lot of arsenal fans, i think quite a few more would be forgiving.
now that he's left of course i wish him all the worst and hope he's the catalyst for barca falling to pieces.
£40mill. I suppose Jack's in there at around £60mill because of the English price premium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironing
Good thing is if we have no more players will personal attachments, so we'd get a better fee next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
If the board could sell the fans they'd do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
He left 18 months ago mentally.His body has finally caught up with his head.Anyway fuck him. He's a cunt joining a city full of them.
Just sadness...that he left a club back in 2003 that hadn't won a trophy in years, that was in turmoil on and off the field....heading to a truly eite club, with some of the worlds best stars, seemingly set up to win trophy after trophy.....and it seems that now with him going back its the same scenario, only in reverse. Reallyy don't know what on earth is going on at Arsenal at the moment and I'm not liking where the cubs heading.
No new era Im afraid,this is where we are at,we are are a selling club end of,this is where Wenger and the board have brought us so people might just as well get used to it:oldboy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth Vela
I'm feeling pretty sad cause I've started supporting Arsenal around the time he was signed. We created one hell of a player but we never seem to capitalise on his talent by showing ambition, in terms of actually building a team to win trophies, players in the squad and just pure shitness therefore making him want to leave - and he's still in his prime.
I'm probably feeling more sad than the Henry saga as Henry was losing it, and I only watched him play at his best for 2 and a half seasons but I still loved him.
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Thank fuck this pathetic melodrama is over.
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Originally Posted by RomfordPele
Pretty much my thoughts. I cant fault him wanting to head out of Arsenal. Why would you want to be in a club where even the club's lesbian is dying to leave?
Heh, don't care, he's been gone for two seasons now, just wish he had the balls to say he wanted to leave when this all started, instead of trying to protect the golden boy image, and letting everyone else doing his dirty work for him.
Don't blame him for going but I genuinely think he'd be a better player in England than in Spain. He has shown for spells in the season his quality - he has a lot of goals, power and two-footed tackling in him. He often pushes things to the limit with refs and gets away with it because he's Cesc Fabregas. Over there, he's just another good player. In the past couple of seasons, his main strength - technical ability and precision passes - have not been a feature of his play and I think he'll get a wake up call when he sees those Barca youngsters out-performing him in training.
I don't think we've been able to get the best out of Fabregas. He was not captain material at 22 and still isn't now, but that doesn't mean he can't fight or doesn't have the mentality to be a great player. What he needed was leadership from: 1) a strong manager that would be willing to make changes when things aren't working, 2) An experienced leader who had been at the club longer than Cesc had and was willing to scare the silly mistakes out of the youngsters.
But overall, we knew he was going at some point...not that bothered that he's going now. Even if it's wrong in the short term, we have a chance to correct just one of the many mistakes. We have let the Arsenal armband become meaningless. I would happily give the captaincy to Wilshere as he is genuinely the most deserving and he is definitely the one who'd give the most to earn it.
To start with I'am happy that its over. For me its simple - as long as he was an Arsenal player i would support him, now that he's left couldn't be bothered. He hasn't done enough to be branded a club legend. Very good player and all yes, but when push came to shove i think his position made it easier for Barca. There's a lot of press doing the rounds that he has received a bonus for not putting in a transfer request, not sure about the veracity of it but I'am inclined to think he has.
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Originally Posted by Syn
sadness for me, awesome world class player and if anything is underated by many Arsenal fans. 8 years i think it is he has been here and IMO has got better and better despite getting more and more distracted.
I wont miss the annual bullshit fest from barca, and i think they should seriously look in a mirror and realise just how much they have tarnishd their previously wonderful aura in all of this. I wish him well at his new club however i still hope we ass fuck them like Peter North in the champs league.
Sadness for me as well. An incredible talent and a superb player to watch when he’s at his best. I guess I’d pretty much resigned myself to him leaving but it’s still a shame to see such a quality player leaving when he’s still got his best years ahead of him.
I also worry as to the damage the whole situation, and particularly the length it’s dragged on and the timing of the sale, could have on the team. I appreciate the whole ‘no players bigger than the team’ thing and that we’ve moved on the past when big players have left, but I can’t help get the feeling that in years to come us losing Fabregas will be seen as the beginning of the end for Arsene Wenger. He has built the team around Cesc and Cesc pretty much epitomised Wenger’s youth policy. For a player of such importance to the team to loose the faith in Wenger’s project and philosophy is a very poor indictment of where the club is heading.
If Arsene doesn’t get it right when filling the hole left by the sale of Fabregas then things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
Yep, I think a lot of people have forgotten how great a player he is. Don't forget the Arsenal team he was playing in was the most average Arsenal team for years and he was carrying us many times.
I think he was very good to the club. Never bitched but he wanted to go to Barca - you cannot blame him for that. He wants to win things and wont win them at Arsenal.
Vieira was trying to get a move pretty much every season he was with us and is now a fucking ambassador for Man City!! Yet he was regarded as a great Gooner and captain (rightly so but still).
The way this club is going I don't think we'll ever sign a midfielder as good as Cesc again. Not unless the Middle East goes pop.
Goodbye and good luck.
over the last 3-4 years ive always said the only thing I fear about the cesc situation is that he will go back to barcelona for less that hes worth, and if he could ensure that he didnt (through performances and/or behaviour) he would go with my blessing.
well he hasnt. through sulking all last season and playing shyt, to letting his shagpals do all the media dirtywork to putting himself in a situation where wenger decided not to play him in pre-season (if not flat out refusing to play). hes ensured that the club missed out on an extra £20m.
overall im embarrassed for wenger that he lost his mind and built a team around a midfielder who ultimately was not good enough or strong enough to perform that role. hopefully he now wakes up and creates a midfield capable of being a solid base first and foremost for a title winning side, just like every title winner have had for at least 20 years.
I think, and I probably echo the views of many a Gooner on this, that I am happy that Fabregas has gone but angry at the club for not having found a suitable replacement in time. Angry at the club for grooming a youngster who was evidently going to join Barcelona. Angry at the club for builiding a team around a player who was never going to have that extra edge to succeed in the Premiership and become a title-winning captain. Angry at the club for agreeing a deal with the C*ntalans that they had wanted at the beginning of the summer, but we'd procrastinated over and in the end succumbed to.
I am angry this morning. I honestly couldn't give a sh!t as far as Fabregas is concerned. He's hardly a legend, and nor is he in the same ilk of lieable players who hadn't actually won anything with Arsenal but are still held in great esteem.
It's pretty safe to say that the next time he's at the Emirates, he'd be roundly booed.
which would be pretty pathetic, but there you goQuote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
Wish the cunt had gone before he backhealed the ball to Iniesta.
Twat.
And rightly so. The guy is arguably one if not the biggest cunts to play for us or not play for us if you take my meaning and it would show Arsenal fans in a bad light if we cheered him. It would show we accept our club being used like a cheap ass whore where we get fucked time and time again and never get what its worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
Yep just told all his boys to do it for him, while he looks the Victim, Like ACH said he a Cun't and a big one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Don't worry it will be back in 7 years when they want Those 2 young spanards, Hector and the other lad back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punchinello Beezo