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Cesc Fabregas

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Made my week this article!  I would give a weeks wages to any reporter who grills Wenger on this next press conference ( Cesc also has more assists for CFC than Ozil has for Arsenal since he joined them LOL).  Amazing to see that wheelchair Jack averages something like 3 assists or less as season.  How was this guy ever hyped up so much?  Because Xavi complimented him once?

 

Shows how fickle we (I) can be that I like Cesc so much now but had nothing but contempt (a lil admiration maybe hidden under it all) for him until he started performing (since day 1) for us.  Now he could end up being a CFC cult hero/legend.  Talk about a complete 180 !

 

If this stat proves anything it is that English players are why over hyped ( if that ever needed proving that is )This country really needs to stop going over the top when it comes to English players. Barkley is the latest one getting over hyped, everytime he scores a goal football pundits and the media go mental. Scoring a few long range goals doesn't make you a great player and from what i have seen of Barkley he still has so much too learn.

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    Wilshere was actually very very good for his age so the hype was kind of understandable. An injury free Jack Wilshere would have become a world class midfielder imo. Too bad for England that his injuries have seen him not progress as expected. 

    Wilshere was actually very very good for his age so the hype was kind of understandable. An injury free Jack Wilshere would have become a world class midfielder imo. Too bad for England that his injuries have seen him not progress as expected. 

     

    A bit like Gundogan for me, though Gundogan was comfortably world-class for that period when Dortmund were at their best - his performances against Real Madrid immediately spring to mind.

    That was the first game where lamps grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and gave us an insight into what he could produce in the next decade.

    Didn't Mario Stanic boss things down the left wing that night too?

    Wonderful, my fave post so far on p167

    "Let him f**k off there. Our midfield will play him off the park" hahahahaha

     

    My favorites:

    biggest mistake of his (Wenger's) career

    the icing on the cake that signifies he's finished and just rubs it into his legacy even more. his main star from project youth now ripping it up at our london rivals, class move wenger.

     

    If I see him on the street in London I might go over to him and cry on his shoulder for 20 mins tbh.

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    I really hope he has a great January and February, they are desperately holding on to the belief that he will be awful around that time.

    I don't remember him being awful in January and February at Arsenal. I remember him being injured all the time for many weeks.

     

    I've seen some stats somewhere that Fab covered the most distance in the PL this season, with Matic coming second. No wonder he gets tired and burned out, considering he's not the strongest player out there. Hope Jose does something about it. Maybe that's partly why Fabregas has been playing #10 lately - he has a bit less defensive work that way.

    Gooners whining on about Cesc,hillarious.Wenger has many positions to address in their current team.Keeper and defence for starters,light weight midfield and no world class forward.Take away the Sanchez goals and they would have as few points as Spuds should have without their luck.

    It's wishful thinking on their part, thinking his form will dip. Let's face it, he's playing in the position he's comfortable and his past injuries have been rectified, and he's taken good care of at chelsea with a very good team; I don't think his form will dip at all, but if oppo fans want to believe it, let them.

    But it is not just him we have plenty of quality around him. If you'd just stick him to Arsenal lineup it doesn't mean he is this effective...

    And gooners know it too:

     

    Why oh why must i watch Cesc in chelsea blue tearing it up. 

     

    f***ing kills me

     

    Because Cesc was wise enough to know a return to Arsenal only would've found him amidst the clusterf**k we now see at our club. Cesc is the most thankful man in London, dodged a f***ing nuclear bomb by choosing Chelsea over us.

    :laugh:

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    We depend on him too much, though. People say Matic or Hazard are our most important players, but while they're extremely important, they're not the glue of this side, playmaking-wise. Fabregas is. He keeps us ticking. Our every attack goes through him. When he doesn't play or has a bad day, the quality of our entire play suffers. When he plays great like today, we look incredibly good. Great playmakers make everyone around them step up and that's what we've been seeing. We had Matic and Hazard last season but we didn't look that good because we lacked a playmaker in midfield that would link together the great players we have.

    I just hope Fabs stays injury-free and in this good form.

    Another quality performance today, who would have ever thought we'd be so happy to see an ex gooner playing for us?

    haha, so true. But Christ what a player he is. Just needs to eat more celery.

    We depend on him too much, though. People say Matic or Hazard are our most important players, but while they're extremely important, they're not the glue of this side, playmaking-wise. Fabregas is. He keeps us ticking. Our every attack goes through him. When he doesn't play or has a bad day, the quality of our entire play suffers. When he plays great like today, we look incredibly good. Great playmakers make everyone around them step up and that's what we've been seeing. We had Matic and Hazard last season but we didn't look that good because we lacked a playmaker in midfield that would link together the great players we have.

    I just hope Fabs stays injury-free and in this good form.

    Spot on. While I do think Hazard and Matic are our two best assets - purely because they'd improve almost every top European team - but we have decent backup for them in Schurrle and Mikel. Yes, they're not of the same quality but the team can still function adequately. Fabregas has no such equal.

    We don't even have someone like him in the youth setup. It's something Jose should rectify going forward. I haven't seen anything of Pasalic but either way we need some creative resources. We only really have Hazard and Fabregas who are world-class playmakers.

    There are substitutes for exceptional players. Teams are always going to hurt when their main men are out. Real are not the same without Ronaldo and Barca not the same without Messi.

    Quite frankly we need Willian and Oscar to step up to the plate. When Cesc and Eden have a bad day, these two need to be able to step in.

    This is where we can fail if we don't have our other attacking players take the game by the scruff of the neck.

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