Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Power n Glory]

Your book must be terrible. Unless Arsenal Football Club crumbles, there will be many midfielders better than Fabregas playing here. Unless you meant that they'd be coming through our academy instead, like Wilshere.

Cesc's assist record was the best in Europe. He's a World and European Cup winner. Also, over the last 6 years, we've seen our best run of results in Europe. We've beaten top clubs like Madrid, AC Milan, Barca and Juve. Back in the glory days with the legends we were going out in group stages against teams like Dynamo Kyiv.

He's an Arsenal legend in my book. Not because of the glory but because of his contribution and passion for this club. Remember the how he played on with a broken leg against Barca and the way he celebrated after scoring that goal against Milan. The kid loved playing for us.

[Cripps_orig]

They all do this though.Henry, our captain, signed a massive contract and then left a year later IIRC.Vieira, our captain, wanted to leave almost every season and is now an ambassador for Manchester fucking City!! Can you believe that??Overmars, Petit, Anelka - they all stuck two fingers up at Wenger.The BIG difference is those players told us to fuck off when we were GOOD and winning things. Would they have stuck around as long as Cesc did if we were as shit as we are now?? No fucking way.Cesc is a legend in my book and I am very sorry to see him go. We will never sign a midfielder as good as him again.

Everyone knows how I felt about Henry. The others all helped us win stuff and none pined or refused to play for us. He's a cunt.Legend? not even close.

[Grebbo]

Your book must be terrible. Unless Arsenal Football Club crumbles, there will be many midfielders better than Fabregas playing here. Unless you meant that they'd be coming through our academy instead, like Wilshere.

I'm glad you're so confident!! Tell me who Wenger has signed since Cesc who's anywhere near as good as him?

Arsenal are not attractive to top players and it is getting harder and harder to buy the next young gem - as Wenger is finding out.

Our glory days are long gone.

[Grebbo]

Everyone knows how I felt about Henry. The others all helped us win stuff and none pined or refused to play for us. He's a cunt.Legend? not even close.

I wouldn't be so sure about Vieira not refusing to play for us. And like I said: Vieira wouldn't have won shit with this team.

[GunnerFan4Life]

He's an Arsenal legend in my book. Not because of the glory but because of his contribution and passion for this club. Remember the how he played on with a broken leg against Barca and the way he celebrated after scoring that goal against Milan. The kid loved playing for us.

It's so sad I'm much more sad than alot of people here.

[Master Splinter]

I'm glad you're so confident!! Tell me who Wenger has signed since Cesc who's anywhere near as good as him?

Arsenal are not attractive to top players and it is getting harder and harder to buy the next young gem - as Wenger is finding out.

Our glory days are long gone.

You said:

We will never sign a midfielder as good as him again.

Which is ridiculous. Unless you mean just under Wenger. But that's not what you said.

We've had midfielders better than him in the past and we'll have midfielders better than him in the future.

He is in no way a legend.

[Grebbo]

You said:

Which is ridiculous. Unless you mean just under Wenger. But that's not what you said.

We've had midfielders better than him in the past and we'll have midfielders better than him in the future.

He is in no way a legend.

Yeah I know what I said.

I'm just wondering how on earth you think we'll sign them when there are four or five club's in the Prem alone who can outbid us and the competition for young talent has increased ten fold since Wenger became boss.

I hope you're right but I'd be surprised.

I can't think of many Arsenal midfielders who were better than Cesc. I think you're forgetting how good he was. Plus he was in a shit team. Watch him and weep when you see how good he is for Barca.

[GunnerFan4Life]

Fabregas might not have the same record as Vieira, Henry, Bergkamp etc and they might get the hyped up return to the emirates but every single arsenal fan will remember Fabregas because of his passion and his love for us. That's enough for me to stand up and applaud him if he ever comes back.

[GP]

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[Niall_Quinn]

He's not a legend because he hasn't been connected with any success at Arsenal, not his fault, too much shit around him on the pitch for that to happen plus Wenger going through his legacy meltdown. But in modern times it's hard to think of a more gifted central midfielder at the club. Brady? Doesn't mean he was the best, that award has to go to Vieira. Agree as well that a lot of our legends might have been hard pushed to stick around during this pointless period, we'll never know. In the end this club became way too small for Fabregas. I don't blame him for going, I can understand that. But I blame him for not speaking out against the absolutely shitty behaviour displayed by that pack of cuntalans who couldn't keep their mouths shut for 30 seconds. He could have said something and I don't buy the shit about him being banned from speaking.

As I type Aguero and Silva are destroying Swansea. Aguero was £35mill, £5mill more than Fabregas. That's scandalous and that's the other thing I'm pissed with, the awful way we handled the transfer and the pitiful amount we received for one of the top three midfielders in the world. No other club would have been so badly skinned. Oh and the probability we'll only spend tuppence (or maybe nothing at all) replacing him.

This is only the immediate impact of him leaving. We have yet to find out the long term repercussions. I'll still watch him play in Spain, he's going to be amazing in the company of Messi and Co and I guess in the end his talent deserves that chance. I was watching him today standing on the pitch, fuck me, that's what it's like to have it all and have the world at your feet. Me, I'm trying to make the rent. All comes down to life choices I guess and you get back what you put in. Arsenal are putting in less and less and pretty soon the club will be struggling to make the rent too. It's all downhill from here. Fabregas escaped in the nick of time.