the issue is more about the style of football for me, and without question the tippety tappety style of football was introduced by Wenger to facilitate Fabregas to begin with and has rather taken on a life of it's own since his departure.

When Fabregas got into the first team there is no doubt that the players around him were superior, but frankly at the same time he was often playing with dross like Denilson or an out of form Diaby or Alex Song who was often inconsistent.

I also think Fabregas went missing just as frequently in the big games, but the issue was like with Ozil and Sanchez is the emphasis placed on them to singularly perform well in these games and went the players around them are not performing it's going to have a drain on their own performance.

I personally don't see a great deal of difference between the two players, I personally prefer watching Ozil although I equally enjoyed watching Fabregas at his best.

But there is no doubt that building a team around Fabregas was the focal point for us adopting the tikka takka approach in the first place.