Villa, al Barça por 42 millones :!:
http://www.marca.com/2010/05/18/futbol/equipos/barcelona/1274204495.html?a=ddf97ad21ca867da264b51a1a804ee17&t=1274212007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/18/cesc-fabregas-barcelona-arsenal-transfer
btw b.dobry text o Cescu:
Could it be that for the second year in succession the English
Premier League will be losing its best player? It certainly looks that way, with reports rampant that Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas will finally do as he has been rumoured to do for years, and return to Barcelona.
Whether you agree Fabregas was the best player in
England this season is mute. I think we can all agree he is one of the best players, and at Christmas few would have debated the point. Only an injury ravaged second half prevented him from winning all the accolades, but that is just me, my opinion.
The
Premier League as a whole should not be surprised. This is not a statement on the League, any claims that it is further evidence it is losing its grip as the number one League in the world are false. It is simply a reality of the world it has created for itself.
Top clubs have long put the tried and tested philosophy of building through the Academy with local lads onto the proverbial scrap heap. It is all about identifying, and then buying the best young talent from wherever they are found, in which ever far reaches of the world.
The danger in this philosophy is that eventually, the player might want to go home, or in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo last year, play for the team he dreamed of playing for his entire childhood. You simply cannot buy loyalty, it needs to be ingrained in a player, and that usually comes in his formative years.
In Fabregas’s case it was from the Barcelona Academy, when he was just sixteen years of age.
No doubt Fabregas prospered under the tutelage of Arsene Wenger, but can anyone really fault the man if he just wants to return to the club that first recognised his talent, and the region where he grew up?
I sense, unlike many players, Cesc Fabregas is not a mercenary; he is just a local lad whose local team happens to be the greatest of our generation. He is also a lad who has once again seen his current team struggle to maintain a status quo. Oh yes, the promise of this Arsenal team remains, and Wenger truly believes he has a young team on the cusp of something special, and that may well prove to be true, but it is also something we have heard every year for five years now.
Fabregas has obviously looked at Barcelona; the team he has always said is in his heart, and sees an opportunity. Xavi, although still world class is the wrong side of thirty, the club has been introducing yet more brilliance from the Academy all season, and the team currently has the funds, and the players, to initiate a deal with Arsenal.
Now is the time for Fabregas to make the switch. Arsenal fans won’t like it, the
Premier League won’t like it, but if you
live by the sword, you will eventually die by the sword.
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