Speaking to Fifa.com, Cesc Fabregas has hit out at suggestions that his head was not in the right place during his final season at Arsenal.
There are many pundits, and Arsenal fans, who believe that Fabregas was not focused and/or completely committed to the club because he knew that his future was in Barcelona.
Cesc argues that only repetitive injuries meant that he did not reach the lofty heights that we had witnessed the season before. He was 100% committed to Arsenal and did not even think about leaving for Barcelona.
“Not for one moment [was I not committed to Arsenal], because I never knew what the future held.
“I was an Arsenal player and under contract until 2014, so I wasn’t thinking of leaving.
“Some people claimed that , just because I didn’t play very much and had a lot of injuries, that it was a bad season for me. I disagree. I still scored nine goals and made 20 assists.
“However, what is true is that I had one injury after another, and every time I got back to full fitness, something else would happen and I’d have to start again from scratch. For all that, mentally I was 100 per cent focused on Arsenal.”
The fact that Cesc was going to leave for Barcelona was inevitable, and I think it is impossible for him to argue that returning to his childhood club wasn’t at least in the back of his mind. However, I don’t doubt that he was (somewhat if not fully) committed to the club during what turned out to be an injury-plagued final season in North London.
The Cesc transfer saga is water under the bridge as far as I am concerned. Analysing all the small details of what was going through his head is unnecessary. We were all prepared to lose our star player at the beginning of the summer because we had, or so we thought, Samir Nasri to step-in and take over the creative midfield role. The Nasri move to City was a lot harder to take, and he was subsequently boo’d by Arsenal fans when he returned to the Emirates in the Carling Cup on Tuesday evening.
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6 Comments
Leavin north london was surely on his mind..
Its good to see Nasri benching so much and playing more carling cup games than he’d have thought.
stop disturbing us Cesc, play 4 ya beloved Barca n lets worring abt ourselves. If u reali loved, u wdnt move.. But u secretly met Rosell n agreed to move. Hypocrite
Cecs is a liar and samir is arrogant that will never remain @ top level of his football career.We shall see what becomes of him. Poor idiot
FABREGAS SHOULD FOCUS ON FINISHING SECOND TO MADRID IN EVERY COMPETITION. HE IS AN AVERAGE PLAYER WHO WON NOTHING WITH THE MIGHTY GUNNERS … KABOOM! KABOOM!
Like everyone here even I’m of the opinion that cesc would be better off not talking about us anymore. It was his decision to leave Arsenal and sever any bond that he previously held with the club in acrimonious fashion.
Hey cesc who do ypou think you’re fooling?+ as you have said that repeated injuries made your appearance for arsenal scarce,right?so how come that at barca you haven’t suppered any injuries?,you played your part to the full,pretending to be injured for most of the season,everybody knew that you were pining for a return home,so it would have been better,if you were honest enough to say THIS IS MY LAST SEASON HERE,I HAVE GIVEN 8 YEARS OFMY LIFE TO arsenal AND YOU WOULD HAVE LEFT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY and respect