Why fabregas left arsenal

I have seen them play for years, both Aaron and Jack. Jack will be the England captain in the next two or three years, there is no doubt. You don't have to be a magician to see that. He has the passing game and he will be an even better player in the future. There is not even a question in my mind about that. As for Aaron, his engine is unbelievable, his final ball will get better and he will be the next big star at Arsenal. They are winners and they will be amazing for the club for sure.

Barcelona have waived any options or sell-on clauses in relation to Jon Toral and Hector Bellerin, the young players who moved from the Camp Nou to Arsenal earlier in the summer. You could argue Fabregas has more than done his part in attempting to translate Wenger's ideas into tangible success. But such is his importance to this, it is hard not to feel that in some ways he has let his coach and club down in his desire to leave. At least in that his desperation to achieve has resulted in a deal that is frankly below what his current market value should be.

Depending on your view point, this may or may not be an unfair judgement of Fabregas' role in this. Barcelona's part in the saga is not in question, it is bordering on disgrace the way they have undermined Arsenal at every turn, from the players public calls to let him come home, to the club hierarchy messing around their north London counterparts with repeated bids, all of which were far too cheap. Nobody is naive enough to believe transfer negotiations are beyond a little craftiness in attempting to get the best deal, but there is an element of classlessness that has characterised Barcelona's pursuit of Fabregas these past couple of years.

Now that the saga is at an end, perhaps the ones Gunners' fans should most reserve their ire for are their club's decision makers.

The year-old's insistence that Barcelona was the only club he would move to of course made a difference. Manchester City , Inter Milan or Real Madrid could probably have been forced into forking out the kind of money Torres was sold for. But in another way, it makes it all the more remarkable that Arsenal did not demand that Barcelona really pay up if they wanted Fabregas so bad. With three years left to run on his existing contract, Arsenal had the time to get their deal.

Then either they would get the transfer fee a star player warrants, or they get a year or two's worth of service out of him. Because surely if he loves Arsenal as much as he claims, Fabregas wouldn't be one to sulk and complain? You have to feel some sympathy for Wenger's predicament here. And I say the same: 'Yeah, you used to hate it, but we always lost'. Especially in important moments. I was very young, I was very passionate. I gave absolutely everything for Arsenal.

I was hungry. I wanted to win. I was a competitor. A lot of things frustrated me and I just decided to go back to Barcelona. They were the best team in the world at that time.