Why Cesc has to go

As the latest set of transfer tittle-tattle hog the back pages of the newspapers –there is one story which dominates all others.
If the latest reports emanating from Cataluña and London are true and Arsenal are about to lose their skipper and talisman Cesc Fabregas to his boyhood club Barcelona then this provides Arsene Wenger with his sternest test.
When Manchester Utd finally caved in and allowed Cristiano Ronaldo to leave Old Trafford last summer to join Real Madrid the deal was negotiated from a position of strength.
Sure United had just been outclassed in the Champions League final against Barcelona but they had also just secured their third successive Premiership.

Moreover the Portuguese had won everything there was to win at Old Trafford and desired a fresh challenge to reignite the fortunes of a flagging Madrid who were flashing the cash like never before to restore their glory days.
For Fabregas the situation is entirely different.

Not only is he set to rejoin the club where he was taken as a nine month old baby by his grandfather to his first game, where as a youth team player he shared the same dressing room as Lionel Messi and Gerard Pique, but he is moving to a team which humiliated Arsenal in this season’s Champions League quarter final.
Obviously the lure of returning to the club which is in his DNA would be almost too strong for any player to resist, but since Cesc has been at Arsenal the only medal on his mantel piece is a rather forlorn looking FA Cup winners medal and a European Championship with Spain.
In the meantime the Catalans have bagged 2 European Cups, 4 La Liga titles, 1 Copa Del Rey, 1 World Club Championship and are widely regarded as the finest football team on the planet.
Now could you imagine if the situation was reversed?
If Barca had been trophyless and Arsenal were securing titles – do you think Cesc woud be pinning for a homecoming ?
No I very much doubt it either.
For Arsenal fans – these facts are hard to stomach.
Fabregas is set to leave a club which has failed to match his own talents, ambitions and dreams.
The midfield maestro is one of the finest in the game yet in every match this season against top opposition whether it is Manchester Utd or Chelsea at home or Barca in Europe he has had to watch his teammates humbled and embarrassed.
The Arsenal skipper can deliver all the probing passes, goals and assists, but when Wenger refuses to buy a decent goalkeeper then all his brilliant work is in vain.
So Gunners’ fans can hardly blame their talisman for leaving –he has given them 7 years of sterling service and has at times carried his team to some wonderful victories.
But Fabregas is a winner and is tired of losing, and that is the brutal truth for all Arsenal lovers to endure.