So Cesc Fabregas wants to leave home again. Please say it ain’t so! For me Cesc is like a former girlfriend; I don’t want him, but I don’t want anyone else to have him either, least of all Manchester United. Let him stay where he is – at HOME.
Twitter’s been alive for weeks as Gooners speculate on the return our former hero, and I have to say I am amazed at how many of us want him back – why ? To quote a famous question from one of my favourite films, what has Cesc ever done for us? Don’t get me wrong, he is a very good player but we never won anything with him!
In my humble opinion, to see the captain of my football club dressed in another teams shirt is like finding your wife wearing your best mates underpants. She is already packed to leave, and you should never take her back.
In the last three seasons that Fabregas played for Arsenal there was endless speculation about his future. Wenger played his favourite card, making him captain, but the writing was always on the wall. The niggling injuries that too often kept him sidelined, which by the way have all of a sudden vanished, and his body language was often a cryptic clue as to where his true future lay. Tell me you didn’t see that?!
But what really got my nut about his departure was that in my opinion it was the catalyst that led to the exodus of Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie and Alex Song. The departure of our club’s captain and our best player at the time sent out the wrong message to the rest of the squad and those tripe hounds in Manchester, who had already bought Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure and Gael Clichy!
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame him for going to Barcelona. But in his last season for us, he never put it all in. Disagree?
And consider that he left with Nasri, RvP and Song by his side, he’d hardly return to play with Gervinho, Ramsey and Santos (okay, Santos won’t play, but you get me). Alright I know we’ve got Cazorla, Wilshere and Walcott, but I’m trying to make a point here…
My point is who is going to leave Barcelona to play with that lot?
Manchester United would be a different kettle of fish for Fabregas, however, should he chose to leave – hopefully he won’t. Linking up again with RvP would be a chilling factor for us all, especially with Rooney giving other options. Along with Cleverly, Cesc could well be Man Utds missing link, and who wants that? Manchester City are going to be bad enough.
Personally I believe that Fellaini could be Arsenal’s missing link. As technically gifted as Cesc is, he lacked the power and the presence we are desperate for. And when Arsenal tried to mix it against your Stokes, Chelseas and your Sam Allerdyces Harlem Globetrotters, all too often it became men against boys, and Cesc never really fancied that physicality.
Fellaini does not give a toss for anyone as his battles with Stoke’s Ryan Shawcross proved, but he is also a fantastic leader a great footballer – and he gets goals ! What are you waiting for Wenger?
So Fabregas v Fellaini is a no-brainer for me and there is the added bonus that he would be cheaper to buy and to pay than Cesc would be, leaving more money for the other signings that are desperately needed .
By my reckoning, Arsenal have just two fit central defenders, an area which has haunted Wenger since he bought Pascal Cygan, followed by Phillipe Sendeross and Sebastien Squllaci. At the moment we only have Per Mertasaker and Laurent Koscielny fit, while Thomas Vermaellen sits in the psychiatric ward at Colney swatting invisible flies trying to work out why he asked to Zonal mark alongside the slowest centre half since Jackie Charlton thought the bottle marked Protein was actually Prozac.
So we are in desperate need of a centre half. Ashley Williams and Micah Richards, who can play anywhere in the back four, could easily fit the bill for us. Here is one for the pot, Begovic in goal. What a spine to build a team around, and plonk Gonzalo Higuain on top of that spine and you can forget all of my previous blogs as will again become Wenger’s love child.
I reckon that lot could be bought for a total of £80 m and wouldn’t cost collectively more than about £475 k a week in wages. Now if you bare in mind that Arsenal have just jettisoned over £400 k a week from the current wage bill, if we sold Gervhinio to Marsaille or any club stupid enough to take him off our hands and our wage bill, than we could also afford Christian Benteke .
His raw pace and power , and the fact that he scored so many great goals in a young relegation haunted side, makes me curious as to what he could do alongside Walcott and how the Premiership could contain them especially with Higuain also potentially lurking around the box.
It might sound like fantasy football, but those players would transform Arsenal as a football club, restore Wenger back into our hearts . They are economically viable and most importantly seemingly available!
So why does it seem like Arsenal are doing nothing? How will Wenger explain the inactivity this time?
I do not know what the club is playing at, but whatever it is if we sign just one marquee player, don’t let it be Fabregas. Forget the sentimentality of his return .
Get Fellaini!
Richie Rich
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